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<strong>Steel</strong> <strong>Designers</strong>' <strong>Manual</strong> - 6th Edition (2003)<br />

448 Beams<br />

16.4 Lateral bracing<br />

For design to BS 5950: Part 1, unless the engineer is prepared to supplement the code<br />

rules with some degree of working from first principles, only restraints capable of<br />

acting as rigid supports are acceptable. Despite the absence of a specific stiffness<br />

requirement, adherence to the strength requirement together with an awareness that<br />

adequate stiffness is also necessary, avoiding obviously very flexible yet strong<br />

arrangements, should lead to satisfactory designs. Doubtful cases will merit examination<br />

in a more fundamental way. 7,8 Where properly designed restraint systems are<br />

used the limits on lLT for Mb = Mc (or more correctly pb = py) are given in Table 16.7.<br />

For beams in plastically-designed structures it is vital that premature failure due<br />

to plastic lateral – torsional buckling does not impair the formation of the full plastic<br />

collapse mechanism and the attainment of the plastic collapse load. Clause 5.3.3<br />

provides a basic limit on L/ry to ensure satisfactory behaviour; it is not necessarily<br />

compatible with the elastic design rules of section 4 of the code since acceptable<br />

behaviour can include the provision of adequate rotation capacity at moments<br />

slightly below Mp.<br />

The expression of clause 5.3.3 of BS 5950: Part 1,<br />

L<br />

m<br />

38ry<br />

£<br />

2 2<br />

[ fc/ 130 + ( py/ 275) ( x/<br />

36)<br />

]<br />

Table 16.7 Maximum values of l LT for<br />

which p b = p y for rolled<br />

sections<br />

p y (N/mm 2 ) Value of l LT<br />

up to which p b = p y<br />

245 37<br />

265 35<br />

275 34<br />

325 32<br />

340 31<br />

365 30<br />

415 28<br />

430 27<br />

450 26<br />

1<br />

2<br />

makes no allowance for either of two potentially beneficial effects:<br />

(16.4)<br />

(1) moment gradient<br />

(2) restraint against lateral deflection provided by secondary structural members<br />

attached to one flange as by the purlins on the top flange of a portal frame<br />

rafter.<br />

The first effect may be included in Equation (16.4) by adding the correction term

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