• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.897-916
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• 2015

A procedure for critical buckling moment of a tapered beam is proposed with the application of potential energy calculations using Ritz method. Respective solution allows to obtain critical moments initiating lateral buckling of the simply supported, modestly tapered steel I-beams. In particular, lateral-torsional buckling of beams with simultaneously tapered flanges and the web are considered. Detailed, numerical, parametric analyses are carried out. Typical engineering, uniformly distributed design loads are considered for three cases of the load, applied to the top flange, shear centre, as well as to the bottom flange. In addition simply supported beam under gradient moments is investigated. The parametric analysis of simultaneously tapered beam flanges and the web, demonstrates that tapering of flanges influences much more the critical moments than tapering of the web.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제90권3호
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• pp.273-285
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• 2024

Tapered girders emerged as an economical remedy for the challenges associated with constructing long-span buildings. From an economic standpoint, these systems offer significant advantages, such as wide spans, quick assembly, and convenient access to utilities between the beam's shallow sections and the ceiling below. Elastic-local buckling is among the various failure modes that structural designers must account for during the design process. Despite decades of study, there remains a demand for efficient and comprehensive procedures to streamline product design. One of the most pressing requirements is a better understanding of the tapered web plate girder's local buckling behavior. This paper conducts a comprehensive numerical analysis to estimate the critical buckling coefficient for simply supported tapered steel web plates, considering loading conditions involving compression and bending stresses. An eigenvalue analysis was carried out to determine the natural frequencies and corresponding mode shapes of tapered web plates with varying geometric parameters. Additionally, the study highlights the relative significance of various parameters affecting the local buckling phenomenon, including the tapering ratio of the panel, normalized plate length, and ratio of minimum to maximum compressive stresses. The regression analysis and optimization techniques were performed using MATLAB software for the results of the finite element models to propose a separate formula for each load case and a unified formula covering different compression and bending cases of the elastic local buckling coefficient. The results indicate that the proposed formulas are applicable for estimating the critical buckling coefficient for simply supported tapered steel web plates.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.45-58
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• 2014

EC3 provides several methodologies for the stability verification of members and frames. However, when dealing with the verification of non-uniform members in general, with tapered cross-section, irregular distribution of restraints, non-linear axis, castellated, etc., several difficulties are noted. Because there are yet no guidelines to overcome any of these issues, safety verification is conservative. In recent research from the authors of this paper, an Ayrton-Perry based procedure was proposed for the flexural buckling verification of web-tapered columns. However, in order to apply this procedure, Linear Buckling Analysis (LBA) of the tapered column must be performed for determination of the critical load. Because tapered members should lead to efficient structural solutions, it is therefore of major importance to provide simple and accurate formula for determination of the critical axial force of tapered columns. In this paper, firstly, the fourth order differential equation for non-uniform columns is derived. For the particular case of simply supported web-tapered columns subject to in-plane buckling, the Rayleigh-Ritz method is applied. Finally, and followed by a numerical parametric study, a formula for determination of the critical axial force of simply supported linearly web-tapered columns buckling in plane is proposed leading to differences up to 8% relatively to the LBA model.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.225-238
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• 2012

Steel structural elements with web-tapered I cross section, are usually made of welded thin plates. Due to the nonrectangular shape of the element, thin web section may be obtained at the maximum cross section height. The buckling strength is directly influenced by lateral restraining, end support and initial imperfections. If no lateral restraints, or when they are not effective enough, the global behaviour of the members is characterized by the lateral torsional mode and interaction with sectional buckling modes may occur. Actual design codes do not provide a practical design approach for this kind of elements. The paper summarizes an experimental study performed by the authors on a relevant number of elements of this type. The purpose of the work was to evaluate the actual behaviour of the web tapered beam-columns when applying different types of lateral restraints and different web thickness.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.45-49
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 미국 AISC-LRFD기준에서 제시하고 있는 웨브 변단면 I형 보의 탄성 좌굴강도 산정식을 고찰하였다. 미국 AISC-LRFD 기준의 기본 개념은 웨브 변단면 보를 가장 작은 단면과 동일한 크기를 가지면서 길이가 다른 등가 일정단면보로 대치하는 것이다. 또한 비지지 구간에 작용하는 응력 구배와 이웃한 보의 횡방향 구속효과를 고려하기 위하여 수정계수(B)를 적용하고 있다. AISC-LRFD 기준에 제시된 수정계수(B)와 유한요소해석결과와의 비교를 통해 본 논문에서는 수정계수(B)를 산정하기 위한 재 정의된 방법을 제안하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.479-489
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• 2000

Based on the stiffness equation of the tapered beam element involving the effects of axial force and shear deformation, numerical investigations are carried out on elastic instability for web-linearly tapered columns with I-section of steel portal frames. Effects of shear deformation on the effective length of the tapered columns with I-section are studied. An efficient approach for determining the effective length of the tapered portal frame columns considering effects of shear deformation is proposed.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.493-501
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• 2007

최근, 국내에서는 물량절감과 경제성 확보를 목적으로 변단면 부재의 적용이 활발히 이루어지고 있으나 재료비선형을 이용한 설계방법으로는 취성파괴의 문제점에 대한 명확한 해결책을 제시하지 못하고 있으며, 변단면 부재의 초기변형, 폭두께비, 웨브 스티프너, 횡지지 거리등에 관한 연구가 부족한 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기존에 연구된 이론식과 재료 및 기하 비선형 해석으로 신뢰성이 입증된 범용 유한요소 해석 프로그램인 ANSYS 9.0을 이용하여 춤이 큰 변단면 H형 보의 해석 모델을 완성하고 실험결과를 바탕으로 판-폭두께비와 비지지거리를 주요변수로 좌굴 및 극한내력을 평가하여, 웨브의 판폭두께비가 클 경우 좌굴내력이 감소하며, 횡 비지지 거리를 짧게 할 경우 연성능력을 향상시킬수 있음을 확인 하였다.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.321-329
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• 2006

변단면 부재는 Amirikian(1952)에 의해 제안되어 재료 절약적 측면이나 효율적인 구조설계로 인한 경제성 확보를 목적으로 주로 단층의 장스팬 건물이나 빌딩의 켄틸레버 보에 사용되고 있다. 그러나 단면성능만을 고려하여 웨브의 춤을 설계할 때 AISC(201)에서 규정한 변단비를 넘어서거나 비콤팩트, 세장판요소로 설계되어지는 경우가 있어 이에 대한 연구가 필요한 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 변단비와 판복두께비를 주요 빈수로 한 7개의 실험체를 제작하여 반복하중을 받는 변단면 부재의 국부좌굴 특성을 살펴보았다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.281-301
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• 2004

The paper begins by presenting a unified variational approach to the lateral-torsional buckling (LTB) analysis of doubly symmetric prismatic and tapered thin-walled beams with open cross-sections, which accounts for the influence of the pre-buckling deflections. This approach (i) extends the kinematical assumptions usually adopted for prismatic beams, (ii) consistently uses shell membrane theory in general coordinates and (iii) adopts Trefftz's criterion to perform the bifurcation analysis. The proposed formulation is then applied to investigate the influence of the pre-buckling deflections on the LTB behaviour of prismatic and web-tapered I-section simply supported beams and cantilevers. After establishing an interesting analytical result, valid for prismatic members with shear centre loading, several elastic critical moments/loads are presented, discussed and, when possible, also compared with values reported in the literature. These numerical results, which are obtained by means of the Rayleigh-Ritz method, (i) highlight the qualitative differences existing between the LTB behaviours of simply supported beams and cantilevers and (ii) illustrate how the influence of the pre-buckling deflections on LTB is affected by a number of factors, namely ($ii_1$) the minor-to-major inertia ratio, ($ii_2$) the beam length, ($ii_3$) the location of the load point of application and ($ii_4$) the bending moment diagram shape.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.389-402
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• 2008

In December 2005, one(A) of the two pre-engineered warehouse buildings in the port of K City of Korea was completely destroyed and the other(B) was seriously damaged to be demolished. Over-loaded snow and unexpected blast of wind were the causes of the accident and destructive behavior was brittle fracture caused by web local buckling and lateral torsional buckling at the flange below rafter. However, the architectural design technology of today based on material non-linear method does not consider the tolerances to solve the problem of such brittle fracture. So, geometric non-linear evaluation which includes initial deformation, width-thickness ratio, web stiffener and unbraced length is required. This study evaluates the structural safety of 4 models in terms of width-thickness ratio and unbraced length using ANSYS 9.0 with parameters such as width-thickness ratio of web, existence/non-existence of stiffener and unbraced length. The purpose of this study is to analyze destructive mechanism of the above-mentioned two warehouse buildings and to provide ways to promote the safety of pre-engineered buildings.