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Aluminium helideck installed on a production platform in the North Sea. Constructed of wide hollow extrusions. Copyright 1999 by Taylor & Francis Group. All Rights Reserved. One of the aluminium accommodation modules for the Saga oilfield in the North Sea, before float-out. Welded up from 0.5 m wide extrusions by Leirvik Sveis on Stord Island, Norway, 1990. 500-kV guyed aluminium transmission tower in Canada. (Courtesy of Professor Marsh, Montreal.)
Nat West Media Centre, Lords Cricket Ground, London, 1998. Welded construction using 5xxx-series plate. The main contractor was Pendennis Shipyard Ltd, Falmouth, Cornwall. (Copyright Ove Arup and partners; photograph: Peter Mackinven) Copyright 1999 by Taylor & Francis Group. All Rights Reserved.
Page 1 and 2: Aluminium Design and Construction C
Page 3 and 4: First published 1999 by E & FN Spon
Page 5 and 6: 2.2.1 Rolling mill practice 2.2.2 P
Page 7 and 8: 5 Limit state design and limiting s
Page 9 and 10: 8.2.6 Use of interpolation for semi
Page 11 and 12: 10.3.2 Inertias for a section with
Page 13 and 14: Preface Aluminium is easily the sec
Page 15 and 16: List of symbols The following symbo
Page 17 and 18: uu, vv principal axes w effective s
Page 19 and 20: 1.1.3 The industrial metal It is on
Page 21 and 22: where A is the section area (mm 2 )
Page 23 and 24: 1.3.1. The good points about alumin
Page 25 and 26: Deflection Because of the lower mod
Page 27 and 28: 1.4.4 Establishment of the alloys I
Page 29 and 30: 1.5.2 New technology Most of alumin
Page 31 and 32: large span, where self-weight is a
Page 33 and 34: These tend to be in all-aluminium c
Page 35 and 36: Close-up of the M-dec system, which
Page 37: Aluminium glazing system for commer
Page 41 and 42: The main requirements for the produ
Page 43 and 44: in which t and w are in mm. These a
Page 45 and 46: Figure 2.1 Extrusion process (direc
Page 47 and 48: Figure 2.2 Typical extrusion die. t
Page 49 and 50: Figure 2.6 ‘Semi-hollow’ profil
Page 51 and 52: especially the stronger alloys in t
Page 53 and 54: Figure 2.9 Conventional profiles. 2
Page 55 and 56: 2.4 TUBES By tubes we mean hollow s
Page 57 and 58: CHAPTER 3 Fabrication 3.1 PREPARATI
Page 59 and 60: Figure 3.1 Alternative designs for
Page 61 and 62: Figure 3.2 Thread insert. a coil-sp
Page 63 and 64: 3.3 ARC WELDING 3.3.1 Use of arc we
Page 65 and 66: adjusted. The technique is claimed
Page 67 and 68: For welds of minimum or fatigue qua
Page 69 and 70: Figure 3.5 Friction-stir welding: s
Page 71 and 72: are, and the designer/fabricator mu
Page 73 and 74: cartridge, and mixing takes place a
Page 75 and 76: 3.7.4 Painting Alloys having durabi
Page 77 and 78: Where a range is given, as for the
Page 79 and 80: will be only slightly above that fo
Page 81 and 82: heating the metal to a temperature
Page 83 and 84: Table 4.4 Characteristics of differ
Page 85 and 86: softening in the heat-affected zone
Page 87 and 88: 60 alloys, are: BSEN.485 plate and
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Firure 4.3 Nominal composition and
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popular alloys in the series are: 6
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Figure 4.6 Variation of tensile str
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undercarriages of aircraft. They ar
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Figure 4.11 Minimum stress-strain c
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AC.51400 This is another non-heat-t
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times that of the actual pits) prod
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The severity of bimetallic corrosio
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Nominal loading. Nominal loads are
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2. Material factor (� m ). In the
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design does not, because stress at
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Table 5.2 Summary of limiting stres
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Figure 5.4 Plastic strain at workin
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example, a reduced value might be t
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The parameter � depends purely on
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CHAPTER 6 Heat-affected zone soften
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area of softening. With 7xxx-type m
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Figure 6.3 Typical hardness plots a
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6.4 SEVERITY OF HAZ SOFTENING 6.4.1
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Figure 6.6 Categories of welded joi
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Figure 6.10 One-inch rule, extent o
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e allowed for in design by replacin
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Figure 6.13 Predicted area (A z ) o
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Figure 6.15 Overlapping HAZs. nomin
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In determining A zp , an appropriat
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failure plane in the HAZ, close to
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With MIG welding, an electrode-posi
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CHAPTER 7 Plate elements in compres
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(a) Compression member elements The
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Table 7.1 Classification of element
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Figure 7.4 Slender internal element
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Figure 7.7 shows curves of � ° p
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(7.9a) (7.9b) The strain gradient c
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(through the centroid) for ß S . F
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Figure 7.13 Outstands under strain-
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Figure 7.15 Reinforced elements. Th
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Figure 7.18 Stiffener location for
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Figure 7.20 Slender reinforced inte
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CHAPTER 8 Beams 8.1 GENERAL APPROAC
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8.2.2 Section classification The di
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that for the gross section. It woul
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the usual manner. Line 1 in the fig
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1. Fully compact sections. The limi
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Figure 8.8 Transverse and longitudi
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8.3.4 Shear resistance of bars and
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Figure 8.12 Tension-field action. i
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Figure 8.14 Moment/shear interactio
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depending on the estimated degree o
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where a is the stiffener spacing an
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plates (if fitted), p v =limiting m
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ending moment diagram. Two cases ar
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Figure 8.23 Sections covered in Tab
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where: I yy , I vv =inertia about m
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post (Section 8.6.4) or by some oth
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Figure 8.26 Components of deflectio
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9.1.2 Classification of the cross-s
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hole. Alternatively, it might fail
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Figure 9.2 Limiting stress p b for
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The determination of l involves a c
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Figure 9.6 Monosymmetric section. I
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Figure 9.9 Limiting stress p b for
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where s=� s /� t s =slenderness
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Figure 9.11 Type-R sections covered
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Figure 9.14 Four standardized profi
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9.7.2 Secondary bending in trusses
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Table 9.5 Necessary checks for memb
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Figure 9.18 Axial load with biaxial
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1. Tension members. The localized f
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Figure 10.1 Symmetric plastic bendi
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We now turn to monosymmetric sectio
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distance of its centroid from the n
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Figure 10.6 Elements of sections. I
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10.3.3 Product of inertia The produ
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Usually the conditions are such as
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Table 10.2 Torsion constant. Factor
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Figure 10.12 Warping. Conventional
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where b, t=element width and thickn
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10.5.3 Evaluation of warping When t
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For sections where the position of
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(10.31) where: e=distance that S li
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10.5.9 Asymmetric sections Before s
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CHAPTER 11 Joints This chapter cons
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the use of limiting stresses taken
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and the summation is made for all t
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Figure 11.3 Interaction diagram for
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k in order to give a fair compariso
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3. The design is satisfactory if fo
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When the method of surface preparat
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11.3.3 Weld force arising In many c
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Table 11.6 Limiting stress p w (N/m
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where p a =limiting stress for unwe
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Figure 11.11 Interaction diagram fo
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Manufacturers of structural adhesiv
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11.4.6 Creep Shear strength figures
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Figure 11.15 Effect of glue-line th
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Table 11.7 and Figure 11.17 provide
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11.4.11 Resistance calculations for
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high value reflects the various unc
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therefore usually presented in term
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For example: The loading spectrum i
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act on the structure. However, BS.8
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Figure 12.4 Crack propagation: (a)
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12.5 CLASSIFICATION OF DETAILS 12.5
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i.e. a joint extending in the same
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when the design life is low or when
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Methods (2) and (3) are difficult t
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it reverts to line 1. The slope s o
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