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The Design of Modern Steel Bridges - TEDI

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Stiffened Compression Flanges <strong>of</strong> Box and Plate Girders 177<br />

Figure 6.7 Geometry <strong>of</strong> stiffened compression flange.<br />

involving deflection <strong>of</strong> transverse members will require the following minimum<br />

value for the transverse members<br />

Minimum Ic ¼ 9<br />

16Y<br />

s2 aA2 4<br />

f LB<br />

EcEfIf<br />

6.10 Stiffened compression flange without transverse stiffeners<br />

Construction <strong>of</strong> a narrow box girder <strong>of</strong> moderate size may be considerably<br />

simplified if only one or two longitudinal stiffeners are provided on the compression<br />

flange, without any other form <strong>of</strong> stiffening. In such a design the<br />

buckling <strong>of</strong> the compression flange will be completely governed by the orthotropic<br />

behaviour <strong>of</strong> the stiffened flange panel. From Section 6.5 the critical<br />

buckling stress is given by<br />

scro ¼<br />

p 2<br />

B 2 t þ Asx<br />

B<br />

Dx<br />

f 2 þ Dyf 2 þ 2H<br />

where all the notation is as given in that section. If the contribution <strong>of</strong> H is<br />

ignored, the expression for s cro can be reduced to<br />

scro ¼<br />

2p 2<br />

B 2 t þ Asx<br />

B<br />

Dx<br />

f 2 ¼ 2p2EIx l2b0te ð6:16Þ

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