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Tutorial 3 - CIVE1179Tutorial - 3 - Inplane - Bending2016 PDF
Tutorial 3 - CIVE1179Tutorial - 3 - Inplane - Bending2016 PDF
Tutorial 3 - CIVE1179Tutorial - 3 - Inplane - Bending2016 PDF
Tutorial #3 Design of laterally restrained beams
Commercially available I sections in Australia
Large steel manufacturers in Australia such as OneSteel produces hotrolled structural sections
civil/structural applications according to Australian Standards. You may download their “section
table” from the following link:
http://www.onesteelmetalcentre.com/~/media/OneSteel%20Reinforcing/Technical%20Resources/Seve
nth%20Edition%20Hot%20Rolled%20and%20Structural%20Steel%20Products.pdf
As the structural designer you may also design your own Ibeam by welding steel plates together. This
is called “Welded beams” and sometimes called “Plate Girders” in textbooks. PGs are usually much
more expensive then offtheshelf hotrolled Ibeams, so unless you are dealing with enormously large
loads or spans, stay away from it. PGs are usually used in bridges and it is a topic in CIVE1210 Steel
Structures 2.
Note: In CIVE1179 we will only use Universal Beams (UB) and Universal columns (UC). So you only
need to print those pages.
What is a laterally restrained beam?
It means a beam that does not exhibit lateraltorsional buckling (LTB) . The beam will bend about its
axis until failure. This is identical to “inplane bending of beams”.
Shear capacity
Most of the shear capacity comes from the “web” of an Ibeam. This relates to the concept of “shear
flow” which you may learn from fundamental structural mechanics. The larger the web area, the larger
the shear capacity.
However, the web is a thin piece of metal afterall. If the web is too thin and tall (i.e. slender) it will
buckle in shear. Therefore, the first step to check shear capacity is to rule out this possibility.
Fortunately,
All hotrolled sections from steel manufacturers will pass this check!
From experience the shear capacity of an Ibeam is usually many times larger than applied shear force.
Therefore, the shear capacity check is usually
not critical. (But you still need to check it!)
Moment Capacity
In AS4100, steel sections are classified into Compact, Noncompact and Slender. You may find the
compactness of sections from the hotrolled section catalogue (C or N). There is no “slender” section in
the list. This classification will affect moment capacity.
Example
Determine the compactness, shear and section moment capacity of 310UB40.4 (Grade 300+)
From the hotrolled section catalog, we have the following values:
3 3 3 3 2
d=304mm; b =165mm; t
f =10.2mm; t
f =6.1mm; S
w =633x10
x mm ; Z=569x10
x mm ; f=320N/mm
y .
Compactness check (Cl. 5.2.2)
Flange:
λe= bt √(fy/250) =7.79xsqrt(320/250) = 8.81
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λey = 16 (see Table 5.2=> Flat => One => Uniform compression => HR )
λe
λey = 8.81/16 = 0.551
Web:
λe= bt √(fy/250) =46.5xsqrt(320/250) = 52.6
λey = 82 (see Table 5.2=> Flat => Both => compression+tension => HR )
λe
λey = 52.6/115 = 0.457
Since the flange shows a greater λey λe , λs = 8.81
λp = 9 > λs ; thus the section is COMPACT.
Note: alternatively the catalog also shows this particular section is compact (C).
Shear capacity (Section 5.11 AS4100)
dp 82
tw = 46.5 ≤ fy/250 = 72.5
√
thus V =V
v u
3
V w = 0.6f A
y = 0.6x320x304x6.1 x10
w = 356kN
Section moment capacity (Section 5.2 AS4100)
3 3 3 3
Ze = min(S , 1.5Z)
= min(633x10 , 1.5x569x10 ) = 633x10mm. (Cl. 5.2.3)
3
M =f Z
s ye =
320 x 633 x 10 =202560000 Nmm = 202.56kNm (Cl. 5.2.1)
Exercise
Determine the compactness, shear and section moment capacity of 360UB44.7 (Grade 300+)