Opening In Oriented Corrugated Web Steel Beams

Abstract

Among various range of structural steel products, the I-section beams are the most frequently used shape in steel works. This paper receives a light on two intentions: the first one is the flexure behaviour of corrugated web beams subjected to uniform or point load, while the second one is the effect of web openings on the load capacity of steel beams with corrugated webs. Trapezoidal corrugated steel webs in the cross-sectional plane (i.e., horizontal) and oriented in in-plan direction were investigated arithmetically using a Finite Element (FE) technique. In the finite element analysis, 3D models were studied using ANSYS software and a non-linear analysis was performed through thirty models of simply supported beams. Results show that using corrugated web does not have significant effect on the beam resistance to bending but increases the beam resistance to shear.