The Design of Modern Steel Bridges - TEDI
The Design of Modern Steel Bridges - TEDI
The Design of Modern Steel Bridges - TEDI
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160 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Design</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Modern</strong> <strong>Steel</strong> <strong>Bridges</strong><br />
Figure 6.1 Typical construction details <strong>of</strong> stiffened compression flange.<br />
buckling <strong>of</strong> longitudinal stiffeners between transverse stiffeners, and<br />
overall buckling <strong>of</strong> the orthotropically stiffened panel between<br />
girder webs.<br />
(4) Geometric imperfections and residual stresses in the flange plate and the<br />
stiffeners.<br />
Any interaction between local buckling <strong>of</strong> a stiffener outstand and either<br />
local plate buckling or overall strut buckling would lead to sudden and substantial<br />
drop <strong>of</strong> load resistance. Hence design rules for stiffened plate structures<br />
specify such geometrical limitations on stiffener outstands that they are neither<br />
prone to premature buckling nor sensitive to any initial imperfections in them.<br />
6.2 Buckling <strong>of</strong> flange plate<br />
It will generally be uneconomical to limit the plate slenderness to such a value<br />
that it will not deform out-<strong>of</strong>-plane before the whole strut buckles. <strong>The</strong>refore<br />
the flange plate may have a non-linear load-deformation response; and the<br />
flange plate being one component <strong>of</strong> the strut cross-section, this will affect the<br />
behaviour <strong>of</strong> the strut. <strong>The</strong> stress in the flange plate due to axial force P and<br />
bending moment M on the strut is given by<br />
s ¼ ks<br />
P<br />
Ae<br />
þ My<br />
Ie<br />
ð6:1Þ<br />
when ks is the secant stiffness factor <strong>of</strong> the flange plate, appropriate to the value<br />
<strong>of</strong> stress s in it, as shown in Fig. 6.2. A e and I e are the area and the second<br />
moment <strong>of</strong> the area <strong>of</strong> the strut cross-section in which k s times the flange plate<br />
area is taken as effective, and y is the distance <strong>of</strong> the mid-plane <strong>of</strong> the flange<br />
plate from the centroidal axis <strong>of</strong> the effective strut section. k s is given by