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The Design of Modern Steel Bridges - TEDI

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152 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Design</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Modern</strong> <strong>Steel</strong> <strong>Bridges</strong><br />

or<br />

syfBT 2 f<br />

syb 2 t<br />

1:25<br />

5<br />

p2 s2<br />

sy<br />

For S 4 1.0, s2 is zero and hence any web panel adjacent to a flange and with<br />

slenderness ratio S 4 1.0 may be taken as restrained irrespective <strong>of</strong> the size <strong>of</strong><br />

the girder flange. For web panels with S 5 3.6, s2 ¼ 0.5 sy, and hence such a<br />

panel adjacent to a flange can be considered restrained only if the following<br />

condition is satisfied for the size <strong>of</strong> the flange<br />

syfBT 2 f<br />

syb 2 t 50:0625<br />

s 2 yf<br />

s 2 yf<br />

s 2 yf<br />

s 2 yf<br />

s2 f<br />

s2 f<br />

!<br />

!<br />

ð5:49Þ<br />

For a web panel adjacent to a flange and with slenderness ratio 1.0 < S < 3.6,<br />

the flange size has to satisfy the following condition for the panel to be<br />

considered restrained<br />

i.e.<br />

5.7.2 Plates under shear<br />

syfBT 2 f<br />

syb 2 t<br />

1:25<br />

5 0:192ðS 1Þ<br />

p2 5 0:024ðS 1Þ<br />

s 2 yf<br />

s 2 yf<br />

s 2 yf<br />

s2 f<br />

s 2 yf<br />

!<br />

s2 f<br />

!<br />

ð5:50Þ<br />

In Section 5.4.5 the tension-field strength <strong>of</strong> a plate subjected to shear was<br />

shown to depend upon a flange stiffness parameter m given by<br />

m ¼ Mp<br />

b 2 tsy<br />

This parameter is one-quarter <strong>of</strong> the ratio <strong>of</strong> the plastic moduli <strong>of</strong> the flange<br />

plate and the web plate about their respective horizontal centroidal axes, which<br />

has been used in the section above for determining the flange stiffness required<br />

to achieve restrained plate capacity under compressive applied loading. <strong>The</strong><br />

minimum values <strong>of</strong> m required to achieve in the tension field mechanism the<br />

levels <strong>of</strong> shear capacities represented by the restrained plate capacities in shear<br />

may be obtained from the expression for tension field strength for different<br />

aspect ratios <strong>of</strong> the plate. <strong>The</strong>se minimum values should, however, be increased<br />

by a safety margin, since the tension field mechanism is attained with deformations<br />

in the plate, and in the flange member, <strong>of</strong> a much larger magnitude<br />

than is associated with the ultimate strength <strong>of</strong> orthogonally stiffened plates.<br />

By this method, the following stiffness requirement for the flange member has

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