Evaluation of the Mutual Effect of Shear Force and Bending Moment in Plate Girders with Corrugated Webs

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1 Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Tabriz

2 Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Tabriz,

10.22034/ceej.2024.58225.2284

Abstract

Plate girders are among the main load-bearing elements of large structures such as bridges, which, due to their type of application, must meet the necessary geometric and physical characteristics in terms of hardness and non-buckling. The existence of corrugated web in the bridges greatly increases the bending stiffness of the girder. With the removal of stiffeners, plate girders with corrugated web, in addition to significantly reducing the weight of the structure, save the cost and time required for welding operations, and also significantly reduce the fatigue of girder due to welding operations. This issue can have a significant impact on structures such as bridges that are subject to successive loading and unloading. In plate girders with corrugated web, the bending resistance is created by the flanges of the girder, and the corrugated web does not contribute significantly to it, but it provides the shear capacity of the plate girder to a high extent. The failure in such girders is caused by steel yielding, buckling or interaction of these two phenomena. lateral twisting and local buckling of the flange are also considered as other important criteria of failure in this type of girders. One of the problems that mankind has been constantly facing is the buckling of thin web. Therefore, the determination of the resistance of corrugated web will be of special importance. So far, few studies have been done on the resistance of corrugated web under distributed loading. The purpose of this study is to compare the strength of corrugated and flat web plate girders by considering the interaction effect of shear force and bending moment according to the types of web shapes.

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