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Aluminium Design and Construction John Dwight

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CHAPTER 8<br />

Beams<br />

8.1 GENERAL APPROACH<br />

This chapter covers the performance of aluminium beams under static<br />

loading, for which the main requirement is strength (limit state of static<br />

strength). In order to check this there are, as in steel, four basic failure<br />

modes to consider:<br />

1. bending-moment failure;<br />

2. shear-force failure;<br />

3. web crushing;<br />

4. lateral-torsional (LT) buckling.<br />

The resistance to bending failure (Section 8.2) must be adequate at any<br />

cross-section along the beam, <strong>and</strong> likewise for shear force (Section 8.3).<br />

When high moment <strong>and</strong> high shear act simultaneously at a cross-section,<br />

it is important to allow for their combined effect (Section 8.4). The<br />

possibility of web-crushing arises at load or reaction points, especially<br />

when there is no web stiffener fitted (Section 8.5). Lateral-torsional<br />

buckling becomes critical for deep narrow beams in which lateral supports<br />

to the compression flange are widely spaced (Section 8.7).<br />

In checking static strength, the basic requirement is that the relevant<br />

factored resistance should not be less than the magnitude of the moment<br />

or force arising under factored loading (Section 5.1.3). The factored<br />

resistance is found by dividing the calculated resistance by the factor<br />

? m . The main object of this chapter is to provide means for obtaining<br />

the calculated resistance corresponding to the various possible modes<br />

of static failure. The suffix c is used to indicate ‘calculated resistance’.<br />

When a member is required to carry simultaneous bending <strong>and</strong> axial<br />

load, it is obviously necessary to allow for interaction of the two effects.<br />

This is treated separately at the end of Chapter 9.<br />

For aluminium beams, it is also important to consider deflection<br />

(serviceability limit state) bearing in mind the metal’s low modulus.<br />

This is a matter of ensuring that the elastic deflection under nominal<br />

loading (unfactored service loading) does not exceed the permitted value<br />

(Section 8.8).<br />

Copyright 1999 by Taylor & Francis Group. All Rights Reserved.

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