Review Innovations CE Review for May 2022 – Steel Design 2

Situation 1.

A steel beam is made up of a wide flange section whose total

depth is 600 mm, width of the flange is 300 mm, flange
thickness of 20 mm and moment of inertia Ix = 1.16x109 mm4.
Its web thickness is 10 mm and has a simple span of 9 m. A
40 kN/m uniform load is loaded throughout its span and 200
kN load acting at midspan. Allowable bending stress of the
beam is 148.8 MPa.

1. Determine the required section modulus without

exceeding the allowable bending stress.
2. Determine the section modulus of the wide flange.
3. Determine the width top and bottom reinforcing
plates 12mm thick if necessary.
4. Determine the length of top and bottom reinforcing 8. What is the maximum bending stress (MPa) in beam CG?
plates if necessary. 9. What is the permissible flexural stress (MPa) if the
compression flange of the beam is laterally supported
Situation 2. only at every 3 m?
10. What is the allowable flexural stress (MPa) if the
A composite beam has a simple span of 6 m. This consists of compression flange of the beam is laterally supported
a Wide Flange steel section and a 120 mm concrete slab only at midspan and the length of the is 10 m? Cb = 1.0
whose width is 1.5 m. Assume shoring was provided.
Properties: Problem for practice
Concrete Wide Flange
fc' = 20.7 MPa A = 9480 mm2 A simply supported steel beam has a span of 8 m and carries
n = 10 d = 400 mm a total uniform load 40 KN/m including its weight. . Fy = 248
Unit weight = 23 kN/m3 Ix = 270 x 106 mm4 Mpa, E=200,000 Mpa and allowable bending stress is 0.66Fy.
- w = 0.74 kN/m
- Fb = 138 MPa Section Ix (mm 4) d (mm)
4. Determine the moment of inertia (transformed steel W21x55 561.9 x 106 527
section) W21x57 481.0 x 106 535
5. Compute the moment capacity of the composite beam. W21x62 553.6 x 106 533
6. Compute the allowable live load moment of the W18x71 478.0 x 106 469
composite beam.
1. Determine the minimum section modulus in mm3 such
Situation 3. that the allowable bending stress will not be exceeded.
2. Which of the following section is the most economical and
Given the properties of wide flange: safe.
d = 530 mm tw = 18 mm
bf = 210 mm tf = 16 mm Situation: A simply supported W 350 x 90 girder, 8 m long
7. Compute the value of rt defined as the radius of carries a concentrated load P positioned at midpoint point.
gyration of compression flangeplus 1/3 of the The beam also carries a uniform dead load of 5 kN/m
compression web area about y-axis. (including its own weight) and live load of 7.2 kN/m. Use Fy
= 250 MPa and E = 200 GPa.
Situation 4. Properties of W 350 x 90:
d = 350 mm Ix = 266.4 x 106 mm4
Given: tw = 10 mm Sx = 1,510 x 103 mm3
S=3m L=9m bf = 250 mm
Superimposed dead load = 6.0 kPa tf = 16.5 mm
Live load = 4.8 kPa Allowable stresses:
Flexure, Fb = 0.66Fy
Properties of beam CG (Wide Flange): Shear, Fv = 0.40Fy
d = 350 mm Sx = 2340 x 103 mm3 3. Determine the value of P based on flexure.
tw = 12 mm rt = 50 mm 4. Determine the value of P based on shear.
tf = 18 mm wb = 97 kg/m
bf = 360 mm Fy = 345 MPa Situation: A wide flange section has the following properties:
bf = 150 mm tw = 9 mm
tf = 12 mm d = 350 mm
Fy = 250 MPa
5. Determine the safe uniform load that the section could
carry if length of the beam is 10 m based on shear if Fv = 0.4Fy.
6. Determine the moment capacity of the section if Fb = 0.6Fy.
7. Determine the shear flow of the portion of the flange 25
mm from the edge if V = 267840 N.

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Situation: A plate girder 600mm deep is composed of

300x12mm compression flange 200x12mm tension flange
and 10mm thick web
10. Determine the distance of the neutral axis from the
compression face of the beam.
11. Calculate the area of the compression flange plus 1/3 of
the compression web.
12. Find the value of rt defined as the radius of gyration of a
section comprising the compression flange plus 1/3 of the
compression web area, taken about an axis in plane of the
web.

Situation: A simple beam has a span of 10 m and supports a

total uniformly distributed load of 12 kN/m.
Properties of W 480 x 86:
A = 10800 mm2 Ix = 383.13 x 106 mm4
bf = 180 mm tw = 12 mm
tf = 15 mm d = 480 mm

13. Calculate the maximum moment in the beam in kN-m.

14. Calculate the maximum bending stress in the beam in
MPa.
15. Calculate the section modulus of the wide flange in mm3.

Situation: A composite simple span beam is made up of a

wide flange with two cover plates of 320mm x 12mm placed
at the top and at the bottom. The beam has a simple span of
6m. and carries a total load of 360 kN/m. Allowable bending
stress Fb = 150 MPa.

Properties of the wide flange section:

A = 20000 mm2 tw = 18mm

bf = 320mm tf = 12 mm
d = 560mm I =1568x106 mm4
E = 200000 MPa

16. Compute the moment of inertia of the composite beam.

17. Compute the section modulus of the section.
18. Compute the moment capacity of the beam.
19. Compute the safe uniform load that the beam could carry.

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NSCP: Allowable bending stress
CASE II - LATERALLY UNSUPPORTED BEAMS (L > Lc)
The value of Lc, as given by the smaller of:
703270Cb L 3516330 Cb
200b f 137900 A. If  
or Fy rt Fy
Fy d
Fy ( )
Af 2 Fy (L / rt ) 2 
Fb =  − 6  Fy
bf- base of compression flange  3 10.55x10 Cb 

d- depth of section
Af- area of compression flange
Fy- yield strength of steel
Fb = 82740Cb
L(d / A f )
CASE I - LATERALLY SUPPORTED BEAMS (L ≤ Lc)

a) For compact section - use the bigger value but not greater than 0.60Fy

Fb = 0.66Fy (bending about the strong axis) or B. If

L
≥ 3516330 Cb
rt Fy

Fb = 0.75Fy (bending about the weak axis) 1172100 Cb

Fb =
(L / rt )
2
1.
bf Fy < 170
2t f

2. d
F < 1680 Fb = 82740Cb
tw y L(d / A f )
b) For partially compact section use
- use the bigger value but not greater than 0.60Fy
b
Fb = ( 0.79 - 0.000762 2tf Fy ) Fy
f L 703270Cb
C. If ≤
bf F rt Fy
1. 170 < y < 250
2t f 82740Cb
d
Fb =
2.
Fy < 1680 L(d / A f )
tw
- but not greater than 0.60Fy
c) For non-compact section

use Fb = 0.60Fy, where:

Cb = 1.75 + 1.05 (M1/M2) + 0.3 (M1/M2)2

but not more than 2.3

M1 – smaller end moment

M2 – bigger end moment

M1/M2 is positive when moments are of the same sign or

bending in double curvature.

M1/M2 is negative when moments are of the opposite sign or

bending in single curvature.

L - unsupported or unbraced length

rt – radius of gyration of compression flange plus 1/3 of the

compression web area about y-axis.

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