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04 - Design of Steel Flexural Members
04 - Design of Steel Flexural Members
Design for :
• Economy – choose lightest beam that can
carry the load
X X
Y Y
Stress and Strain in the Cross-section
Strain
N.A.
N.A.
small F Fy Fy Fy
LRFD Equation
Q R
i i n
Mu Mn
Specification for Flexural Members
p. 16.1-207
Part 5 – Design of Flexural Members
w
Also an internal shear: M
wL
Vmax V
2
R
Beam Shear
Beam Shear
Shear Strength of Beams
p. 16.1-35 LRFD (with no holes in web)
h E
vVn 0.9(0.6) Fyw Aw if, 2.45
tw Fyw
true for steel shapes
where,
Fyw = yield strength web = Fy for steel shapes
Aw = area of web = d x tw
24.5”
45’
30’
30’ 30’
KBC Minimum Distributed Live Loads
KBC Minimum Concentrated Load
Composite Construction
• Detail of shear connectors
Composite Construction
PNA in steel
b
Ycon a
C = Ccon+Cst
Tst
C=T
PNA in concrete
b
a C con
Ycon
Tst
Composite Construction
Ccon = 0.85f’cba
T = FyAs
Qn
a Depth of compression
0.85 f 'c b block
Composite Construction p.5-33
• Y1 – Distance from PNA to beam top
flange
• Y2 – Distance from concrete flange force
to beam top flange
• b – effective width of concrete slab flange
• a – effective concrete flange thickness