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Kucukler, Merih and Gardner, Leroy (2019) Design of web-tapered steel beams against lateral-torsional buckling through a stiffness reduction method. Engineering Structures, 190 . pp. 246-261. doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2019.04.008 ISSN 0141-0296.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2019.04.008
Abstract
A stiffness reduction method for the lateral-torsional buckling (LTB) assessment of welded web-tapered steel beams is presented in this study. The method is implemented by (i) modelling a tapered steel beam using elastic beam finite elements specifically developed to represent the elastic instability response of tapered steel members, (ii) reducing the Young’s modulus E and shear modulus G of each element through a stiffness reduction function considering the bending moments and cross-section properties at the middle of each element and (iii) performing an elastic Linear Buckling Analysis of the beam with reduced stiffness, referred to as LBA-SR herein. Since the adverse influence of the development of plasticity and imperfections on the ultimate member strengths are fully accounted for through stiffness reduction, the presented method does not require any further global instability assessment using member design equations; thus, the proposed method is both direct and practical. Verification of the method is shown for a wide range of web-tapered steel beams using results from nonlinear shell finite element modelling.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > Engineering | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Steel I-beams -- Design and construction | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Engineering Structures | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Science Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0141-0296 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 July 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 190 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 246-261 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.engstruct.2019.04.008 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 April 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 April 2020 |
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