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Week 2 Tutorial Questions

This document contains 6 questions regarding structural design of plate web girders and steel beams. Question 1 involves determining properties such as centroid, second moments of area, torsion constant, section moduli and yield/plastic moments for a plate girder. Question 2 examines whether the cross-section is compact and calculates design strength. Question 3 repeats this for another plate girder. Question 4 analyzes a welded box section. Questions 5-6 examine whether sections are compact and proportion a steel beam section based on deflection criteria.

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Week 2 Tutorial Questions

This document contains 6 questions regarding structural design of plate web girders and steel beams. Question 1 involves determining properties such as centroid, second moments of area, torsion constant, section moduli and yield/plastic moments for a plate girder. Question 2 examines whether the cross-section is compact and calculates design strength. Question 3 repeats this for another plate girder. Question 4 analyzes a welded box section. Questions 5-6 examine whether sections are compact and proportion a steel beam section based on deflection criteria.

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CVEN3302 Structural Design

Tutorial Week 2
Question 1
For the plate web girder shown in Figure 2 determine (take fy = 250 MPa):
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)

Position of centroid.
The second moment of area Ixx and Iyy, respectively.
The torsion constant, J.
The top fibre elastic section modulus about the XX axis, Zx(top)
The first yield moment, MY.
The plastic moment, MP.
The plastic section modulus, Sx.
y
400

1500

20

x
Webthickness:10
50
200

Figure 1 (all dimensions in mm)


Question 2
Figure 2 shows a lightly welded plate web girder. Determine whether the cross-section can
be considered compact for bending about each of the principle axes? Calculate Ze and the
design section strength for bending about the major and minor axes. Take fy = 250 MPa.
y
400

500

10

Webthickness:10
10
400

Figure 2 (all dimensions in mm)


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Question 3
For the plate web girder shown in Figure 3 determine (take fy = 350 MPa):
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)
(ix)

Position of centroid
The second moment of area Ixx and Iyy, respectively.
The torsion constant, J.
The top fibre elastic section modulus about the XX axis, Zx(top)
The first yield moment, MY.
The plastic moment, MP.
The plastic section modulus, Sx.
Determine whether the cross-section can be considered compact for bending
about the XX axis? (The top flange is in compression).
Calculate Ze and the design section strength for bending about the major axis.
y
500

20

2000

x
Webthickness:10

250

40

Figure 3 (all dimensions in mm)


Question 4
Prove that the welded box section shown below is non-compact and determine the design
section strength for bending about the horizontal centroidal axis. Take fy = 360MPa,
Zx=2.2501 10 mm3, Sx=2.5693 10 mm3.
12
10
10

400
360

12
400
Figure 4 (all dimensions in mm)

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Question 5
Show that the following sections are non-compact (using OneSteel Tables):
(i)
(ii)

410UB53.7 in grade 350MPa steel;


310UC96.8 in grade 250MPa steel;

Question 6
A concrete slab is supported by a series of steel beams spaced at 4.0m, as shown in Figure
5b. The live load supported by the slab is a typical office floor live load of 3.0 kPa. If the
maximum allowable deflection is /L = 1/250, proportion a suitable doubly-symmetric
Steel Beam I-Section for the Beam A (Do not use OneSteel Tables). Take = 24 kN/m3,

= 350 MPa and Es = 200,000 MPa. Slab thickness is 230 mm.

LiveLoad=3.0kPa

12 m
a) Steel Beam A Elevation

SteelBeam
i

12 m

4.0m

SteelBeamA

4.0m

4.0m

b) Floor Plan
Figure 5 (all dimensions in mm)

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