The paper is concerned with an experimental investigation on simply supported steel–concrete composite plate girders containing web openings. Ten composite plate girders were tested to failure in order to study their ultimate strength behaviour. Effect of web openings on the ultimate load behaviour of composite plate girders is of primary concern in this study. Test results show that the ultimate shear strength drops marginally in girders with smaller openings but the drop is significant in girders with larger openings, larger than 0·3d, with d being the web depth. The test specimens were also analysed using an analytical method and a finite-element modelling and the predicted results compared with the corresponding experimental values. The comparison shows good agreement, thus confirming the accuracy of the analytical method and finite-element modelling.
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December 2014
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December 01 2014
Experimental study on composite plate girders with web opening
N. E. Shanmugam, BE, MSc (Eng), PhD, CEng, FIStructE, FRINA, FASCE, FIES, FIFI, FSSS;
N. E. Shanmugam, BE, MSc (Eng), PhD, CEng, FIStructE, FRINA, FASCE, FIES, FIFI, FSSS
Professor
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
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S. F. Darehshouri, BE, MSc;
S. F. Darehshouri, BE, MSc
Graduate Student
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
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S. A. Osman, BE, MSc, PhD
S. A. Osman, BE, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Revision Received:
June 12 2013
Accepted:
March 21 2014
Online ISSN: 1751-7702
Print ISSN: 0965-0911
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2014
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Structures and Buildings (2014) 167 (12): 704–717.
Article history
Revision Received:
June 12 2013
Accepted:
March 21 2014
Citation
Shanmugam NE, Darehshouri SF, Osman SA (2014), "Experimental study on composite plate girders with web opening". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Structures and Buildings, Vol. 167 No. 12 pp. 704–717, doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/stbu.13.00043
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