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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

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