Analysis of cold-formed steel rectangular hollow flange beams

This paper presents the results of a theoretical-numerical study of laterally-restrained thin-walled steel rectangular hollow flange beams subjected to bending, shear and bending and shear interaction. Finite element analyses were carried out by using ANSYS software, and validated by previous experimental tests. Furthermore, the effect of intermediate stiffeners was investigated, where the improvement percentage in bending capacity was 4.4%. Additionally, all the corresponding outcomes were calculated according to EN 1993-1-3. The results showed that current standard rules tend to be somewhat conservative in both bending and bending and shear interaction cases, while they are not quite accurate in shear case.

Efficiency and Effectiveness Comparative Analysis of Wide Flange Beams and Cellular Beams in A Case Project United Tractor

United Tractors Company will build a sports center building consist of 3 floors using steel structures. Nowadays, limited land is one of the building development problems. The construction of multi-stored buildings is a solution to the limited land problem. The writer has analyzed beam design with a Wide Flange and Cellular system. Focused on the beam element with construction material in the form of steel with steel quality BJ-37, Fy 240 MPa, Fu 370 MPa. The strength and efficiency of the use of steel tonnage were also analyzed. E-Tabs software 2016 used to steel beam structure analysis. In this beam design planning refers to the steel structure planning following SNI 1729: 2015, SNI 1727: 2013, AISC 2010, ASCE 7-10, and also AISC Design Guide 31. The results of manual verification show that the cross-section of WF 400x200x8x13 and CB 250x125x5x8 with a span length of 6 meters is declared to be strong and safe because fill the strong requirements needs to be smaller than the strength of the plan. The efficiency of the use of Cellular Beam was compared to Wide Flange, the longer of Cellular Beam will increase steel tonnage reductions. The percentage reduction in steel weight will continue to increase when the length of steel usage also increases. This concludes that the use of steel length with steel weight reduction will move linearly. Where in this project with a steel beam length of 1439.27m reduction of steel tonnage was at 19.5%.

Lateral torsional buckling of welded wide flange beams under constant moment

The structural steel design specification in Canada, CSA S16-14, uses the same equations for the design of rolled and welded shape beams for lateral torsional buckling (LTB). A recent study has shown that the current design equations might overestimate the capacity of welded wide flange (WWF) beams. This paper evaluates the performance of the current design equations in providing LTB capacities of welded I-shape beams (WWF beams). An extensive finite element (FE) analysis is performed for simply supported WWF beams subjected to constant moment. In total, 256 FE models are analyzed and it is observed that both CSA and AISC overestimate the LTB capacity of welded I-shape beams by as much as 37%, particularly when residual stress measured at Lehigh University is used in the analysis. Also, the Eurocode is found to be conservative and the proposed equation by MacPhedran and Grondin in 2011 provides better predictions of LTB strengths of WWF shapes than the current CSA approach.