Plate girders under bending

Roland Abspoel

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Abstract

In a material economy driven plate girder design, the lever arm between the flanges will increase. This leads to higher stiffness and bending moment resistance, but also to an in-crease of the web slenderness. This means that high strength steels can be used leading to a large reduction of the steel consumption. However, Eurocode 3 [3] restricts the web slender-ness based on the formula to avoid flange induced buckling, derived by Basler [2]. Experi-mental and theoretical research by Abspoel [1] conducted at the Stevin II Laboratory of Delft University of Technology, shows that this formula is too conservative. Ten unstiffened plate girders with high web slenderness’s are tested, focussed on flange induced buckling.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationproceedings of he International Colloquium on Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures
Subtitle of host publicationTimisoara, Romania
EditorsD. Dubina, V. Ungureanu
PublisherWiley
Pages1-8
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)978-92-9147-133-1
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventThe International Colloquium on Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures - Timisoara, Romania
Duration: 30 May 20161 Jun 2016

Conference

ConferenceThe International Colloquium on Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures
Abbreviated titleSDSS 2016
Country/TerritoryRomania
CityTimisoara
Period30/05/161/06/16

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