SARVAJANIK EDUCATION SOCIETY

SARVAJANIK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING &

TECHNOLOGY

CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT BACHELORS IN

CIVIL ENGINEERING

SUBJECT : Design of Steel Structure(2180610)

TOPIC : Design of Plate girder by Simple Post Critical Method

Under the Guidance of : Prof. Dharmesh K. Bhagat

Design of Plate Girder By Simple
Post Critical Method
Content
 Types of Plate Girders
 SHEAR RESISTANCE OF STIFFENED GIRDER
 BUCKLING OF WEB PLATES IN SHEAR
 Post buckled behaviour
 Three phases of tension field action
 Ultimate behaviour of Transverse web stiffeners
 General behaviour of longitudinal stiffened girders
Types of Plate Girders
 UNSTIFFENED PLATE GIRDER

 TRANSVERSELY STIFFENED PLATE GIRDER

 TRANSVERSELY AND LONGITUDINALLY STIFFENED PLATE GIRDER

SHEAR RESISTANCE OF STIFFENED
GIRDER
 Shear resistance of a web

 Pre-buckling behaviour (Stage 1)

 Requirements of equilibrium in an element inside a square web plate

subject to a shear stress result in generation of complementary
shear stresses

 This results in element being subjected to principal compression

along one diagonal and tension along the other
Shear resistance of a web - 1 q
A B

E q

45o
D
C
q
Unbuckled Shear panel
BUCKLING OF WEB PLATES IN SHEAR

 cr

Shear buckling of a plate

Shear resistance of a web - 2

 As the applied loading is incrementally enhanced, plate will

buckle along direction of compressive diagonal - corresponding
shear stress in plate is “critical shear stress”

 Critical shear stress in such a case is given by

 E
2
t
2
qcr  k s  
121  2
 d 

 Boundary conditions assumed to be simply supported.

Shear resistance of a web - 3

 shear buckling coefficient (ks) given by

2
d  c
k s  5.35  4   where  1, i.e. for wide panels
c d

2
d  c
k s  5.35    4 where  1, i.e. for webs with closely
c d
spaced transverse stiffeners

c
 Post buckled behaviour (Stage 2)

 Compression diagonal is unable to resist any more loading

beyond elastic critical stress

 Any further increase in shear load is supported by a tensile

membrane field, anchored to top and bottom flanges and
adjacent stiffener members on either side of web

 Total state of stress in web plate may be obtained by

superimposing post-buckled membrane tensile stresses upon
critical shear stress
Post buckled behaviour - 1

Anchoring of Tension Field

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Tension field action
 Collapse behaviour (Stage 3)

When load is further increased, tensile membrane stress continues to

exert an increasing pull on flanges

Eventually resultant stress obtained by combining the buckling stress

and membrane stress reaches yield value for web - can be determined
by Von-Mises yield criterion
Collapse behaviour - 1

Tensile membrane stress at yield

Collapse of the panel

Three phases of tension field action

Pre-buckling post-buckling collapse

ULTIMATE BEHAVIOUR OF TRANSVERSE
WEB STIFFENERS
 Transverse stiffeners play important role
 by increasing web buckling stress
 by supporting tension field after web buckling
 by preventing tendency of flanges to get pulled towards each
other
 Stiffeners should possess sufficient rigidity to ensure that they remain
straight, while restricting buckling to individual web panels
ULTIMATE BEHAVIOUR OF TRANSVERSE WEB STIFFENERS - 1

Force imposed on transverse stiffeners by tension field

GENERAL BEHAVIOUR OF
LONGITUDINALLY STIFFENED GIRDERS
 Generally located in compression zones of girder
 Main function - to increase buckling resistance of web
 When it is subject predominantly to shear would develop a collapse
mechanism, provided stiffeners remained rigid up to failure
 Once one of sub panels has buckled, post buckling tension field
develops over whole depth of web panel and influence of stiffeners
may be neglected
GENERAL BEHAVIOUR OF LONGITUDINALLY STIFFENED GIRDERS
–1

Longitudinal and Transverse stiffeners

8.4 Shear

The factored design shear force, V, in a beam due to external actions

shall satisfy
V  Vd
Vd = design strength calculated as , Vd = Vn / γm0

8.4.1 The nominal plastic shear resistance under pure shear is given by:
Vn = Vp
Av f yw
Vp 
3
Av = shear area
8.4.2 Resistance to Shear Buckling
for an unstiffened web

for a stiffened web

a)Simple Post-Critical Method

The nominal shear strength is
Vn = Vcr Vcr = d t wb
b = shear stress corresponding to buckling,

b) Tension Field Method

The nominal shear strength is
V n = V tf
8.4.2.2 Shear Buckling Design
Methods
a) Simple Post-Critical Method -The nominal shear strength is
Vn = Vcr Vcr = d t wb
b = shear stress corresponding to buckling, determined as follows:
a) When  w < 0.8

b) When 0.8 <  w < 1.25

c) When  w 1.25
b =0.9 fyw/(3 w2)
λw = non -dimensional web slenderness ratio for shear buckling stress, given
by

w  f yw ( 3  cr ,e )

The elastic critical shear stress of the web, cr is given by:

kv 2 E
 cr 
 
12 1   2 d / t w 
2

kv = 5.35 when transverse stiffeners are provided only at supports

= 4.0 +5.35 /(c/d)2 for c/d < 1.0
= 5.35+4.0 /(c/d)2 for c/d  1.0
Thank You