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Shear strength of dual web plate girders with transverse stiffeners

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Engineering

Abstract

Although conventional I-section plate girders are widely used, they are still considered as open section girders; thus, lacking the adequate torsional stiffness. This causes them to be vulnerable to fail due to lateral torsional/distorsional buckling. One of the methods of improving that torsional stiffness is to turn the cross-section into a closed one. Although it is common in literature to replace the flat flanges with tubular ones, another approach is followed herein through adding additional web to the girder. Therefore, a numerical study is conducted in this research, using Ansys Workbench, to investigate the shear behaviour of transversely stiffened dual web plate girders (DWPGs). In the adopted finite element (FE) model, each of initial geometric imperfections, geometrical and material nonlinearities are taken into account. A parametric study is carried out on simply supported DWPGs involving stiffeners arrangement, web panel aspect ratio and web spacing. It is found that equipping the DWPGs with inner stiffeners between their dual webs is preferable to outer stiffeners. Particularly, DWPGs with inner stiffeners have higher shear strength and ductility compared to other DWPGs.

DOI

10.21608/dusj.2022.275550

Keywords

Dual web plate girder, Shear Strength, Finite Element

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Elgammal

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Email

ahmedgammal@ymail.com

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Orcid

0000-0002-4144-667X

First Name

Yasmin

Last Name

Ali

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Email

pg_126939@f-eng.tanta.edu.eg

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Orcid

0000-0001-7413-0885

Volume

5

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

38321

Issue Date

2022-09-01

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2022-12-22

Publish Date

2022-09-01

Page Start

340

Page End

351

Print ISSN

2636-3046

Online ISSN

2636-3054

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https://dusj.journals.ekb.eg/article_275550.html

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275,550

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Original research papers

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1,769

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Publication Title

Delta University Scientific Journal

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https://dusj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Shear strength of dual web plate girders with transverse stiffeners

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Created At

23 Jan 2023