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Laboratory report on portal frame experiment for civil engineering course : lightweight structure laboratory

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Portal Frame

Laboratory report on portal frame experiment for civil engineering course : lightweight structure laboratory

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INTRODUCTION

In this laboratory activity, we will be exposed to the apparatus and the methods to carry out
experiment on a portal frame.

This chapter provides a short discussion on performing a traditional laboratory to determine a


horizontal and vertical deflection of portal frame. The objective can be accomplished by
performing several activities on a prototype portal frame available at any light structure
laboratory. Students involvement with the task required in the experimental works would be
sufficient to access the students ability to design, conduct, analyze, interpret data, and to act
effectively as an individual together with leadership capabilities.

Fame is a structure elements composed of beams and column connected by rigid joints. The
angle between the beam and column is usually 90 degree. Fames can be divided into two
categories; braced and unbarred.

A braced frame is one in which the joint at each level are free to rotate but are prevented from
moving laterally by attachment to a rigid element that can supply lateral restrain to the frame.
An unbarred frame is one in which lateral resistance to displacement is supplied by the
flexural stiffness of the beam and column.

Deflection of structures may occur from loads, temperature, fabrication errors, or settlement.
Deflection of the structure via load usually caused by its internal loadings includes normal
force, shear force and bending moment. However, the greatest deflections for beams and
frames are often caused by internal bending.

OBJECTIVES

1) To determine the horizontal deflection of a portal frame


2) To determine the vertical deflection of a portal frame
L1 L2

L3

B A

Height of portal fame ,L3 : 600 mm

Length of portal frame , L1+L2: 600 mm

Length of load from support A : 300 mm

width of member : 25 mm

thickness of member: 9 mm

second moment of area , I : 1518.75 mm

dial gauge reading, 1 div : 0.01 mm

Discussion
Based on the result that obtained from the Square Portal Frame experiment, graphical
presentation, as well as discussion among group members with reliable sources of references,
we have obtained several points of discussion:

1. Superposition is the process where the rotational joint restraints are relaxed by one
process and the translational restraints by another. The principal is used to combine the
separate results. In elastic analysis of structures several load acting, dead load, live
load and wind load, it is permissionable to use the principle of superposition and
obtain a solution based on addition of separate analyses for the different loads.

2. The displacement of roller is directly proportional to apply load. This show that with
more loading been applied, the deflected shape of portal frame will increase. For this
experiment, load been apply at four different situation.

3. For case 1 the load been apply vertically and for case 2 the load been apply
horizontally. For both of this cases it indicate that the higher the apply load the bigger
the displacement of roller. In addition, case 2 give higher reading for roller deflection
compare to case 1. For instance, during 5N of load been applied horizontally, the
displacement of roller is 0.02mm while only 0.004mm when load been applied
vertically.

4. Meanwhile for case 3 and case 4 were to observe the displacement of roller when the
load been applied both vertically and horizontally. In case 3, the load been applied at
the same time while for case 4, the result from case 1 and case 2 been added to obtain
the total displacement when load been applied vertically and horizontally.

5. The error that could have occur during the experiment been conducted such as
systematic error that happen when the digital indicators did not give the accurate
reading. This error might happen since repeated adjustment had be done to put the
load. The unstable position of load during the reading been taken also could be the
factor of this error.

6. Other error that could occur in this experiment is paralaxs error. This error was cause
by us during conducting the experiment such us improper handling the load. This error
can be overcome by applied the load at the frame slowly and wait a few second before
the reading been taken.
REFERENCE

http://www.mu.edu.et/iphc/images/liblary/Heritage/Heritage_Culture_and_Tourism/Theory_o
f_Structure/theorys_of_structures.pdf

https://theconstructor.org/structural-engg/analysis/methods-of-analysis-of-frames/1701/

http://www.steelconstruction.info/Modelling_and_analysis

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