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Compensating steel web-opened beams for the loss in cyclic shear capacity by longitudinal stiffeners

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Engineering

Abstract

In construction practices nowadays, web openings are provided in steel beams to allow room for services, such as pipes and air ducts, to pass through them. However, these web openings have been proved to cause a loss in the shear capacity. Accordingly, in this research a high-performance technique is adopted to compensate web-opened beams for the loss in their shear capacity; particularly when they are subjected to cyclic loading. That technique represents in the installation of additional longitudinal stiffeners in the panel adjacent to the one containing the opening; thus, mitigating shear buckling in that panel and increasing the cyclic shear capacity. For this purpose, a 3-D finite element (FE) model, using Ansys Workbench, was utilized to investigate one solid web beam in addition to eight web-opened beams. Each of the failure mode, cyclic shear capacity and deflection of the specimens were comprehensively investigated. The results indicated that the installation of additional longitudinal stiffeners is an efficient solution to overcome the loss in cyclic shear capacity of web-opened beams, especially in the case of relatively small openings.  They even raised the cyclic shear capacity to more than that of the solid web specimen. In the case of large openings, longitudinal stiffeners managed also to improve the cyclic shear capacity despite not reaching that of the solid web specimen.

DOI

10.21608/dusj.2023.291030

Keywords

Cantilever, Cyclic loading, web opening, Longitudinal stiffener, Shear Strength

Authors

First Name

Yasmin

Last Name

Ali

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Delta University for Science and Technology, Gamasa, Egypt

Email

pg_126939@f-eng.tanta.edu.eg

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Orcid

0000-0001-7413-0885

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Elgammal

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Delta University for Science and Technology, Gamasa, Egypt

Email

ahmedgammal@ymail.com

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-

Orcid

0000-0002-4144-667X

Volume

6

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

40283

Issue Date

2023-04-01

Receive Date

2023-03-16

Publish Date

2023-04-01

Page Start

123

Page End

134

Print ISSN

2636-3046

Online ISSN

2636-3054

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https://dusj.journals.ekb.eg/article_291030.html

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291,030

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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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Compensating steel web-opened beams for the loss in cyclic shear capacity by longitudinal stiffeners

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Article

Created At

28 Dec 2024