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The behaviour of cold-formed stainless steel beam webs subjected to shear and the interaction between shear and bending

M.Ing. (Civil Engineering) / The results of a study presented on the behaviour of cold-formed stainless steel beams subjected to shear taking into account elastic shear buckling, inelastic shear buckling and shear yielding, as well as an investigation into the interaction relationship between shear and bending are presented. From this investigation the results obtained show good relation to the theory. The local shear buckling stress was experimentally determined and it was found that for unreinforced beam webs the shear buckling coefficient is that of an infinitely long plate, namely k=5,34. A good agreement between the experimental ultimate shear strength and the predicted ultimate shear strength was found. Stainless steel beams comprising of lipped channels were manufactured and tested to failure. The types of stainless steels used in this investigation were Types 304, 316, 430 and Type 3CR12 corrosion resiting steel, a modified Type 409 stainless steel. The stress-strain relationship for stainless steels differs from that of carbon steel in that stainless steel is a gradual yielding material. It was concluded in this investigation that Gerard's plasticity reduction factor, Gs/G o, should be used as a plasticity reduction factor in calculations concerning shear. It was found that present design criteria are adequate.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uj/uj:12015
Date12 August 2014
CreatorsCarvalho, Eduardo Carlos Goncalves
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
RightsUniversity of Johannesburg

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