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Steel sheet as lateral restrain?

Steel sheet as lateral restrain?

Steel sheet as lateral restrain?

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Can I take into account steel sheet (thicknes=4mm) as a lateral restrain against torsional buckling?
Thank you in advance.

Drile007

RE: Steel sheet as lateral restrain?

Lateral restraint would be ok provided the sheet steel is ok for the compression force generated due to the lateral movement. You would need to check compression buckling in the sheet and make sure you have restraint back to a system that transfers lateral loads suitably to the ground.

RE: Steel sheet as lateral restrain?

Yes if the sheet is well connected on both the beam and at the restraining support.

RE: Steel sheet as lateral restrain?

You may have to stiffen it in order to develope the shear capacity...

Dik

RE: Steel sheet as lateral restrain?

I feel without proper stiffeners 4mm sheet( even if continuously welded to the beam) cannot be taken as a reliable lateral constraint.I would prefer not to consider it .

RE: Steel sheet as lateral restrain?

Excerpt from Lui's Handbook of Structural Engineering, "Torsional buckling occurs in members with doubly symmetric sections such as cruciform or built-up shapes with very thin walls.  Flexural–torsional buckling occurs in members with singly symmetric cross-sections (e.g., channel,tee, equal-legged angle, double-angle sections) when such sections are buckled about the axis of symmetry and in members with unsymmetric cross-sections (e.g.,unequal-legged L). Normally,torsional buckling of symmetric shapes is not particularly important in the design of hot-rolled compression members. It either does not govern or its buckling strength does not differ significantly from the corresponding weak axis flexural buckling strengths. However, torsional buckling may become important for open sections with relatively thin component plates."

What kind of structural shape are you talking about here?

"Sheesh. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed."

RE: Steel sheet as lateral restrain?

Also from the same reference: "For torsional buckling modes, bracing must prevent twist of the cross-section to be
effective."

If it is a torsional buckling mode, it's twisting restraint that is needed not lateral.

"Sheesh. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed."

RE: Steel sheet as lateral restrain?

Assume that the thin, 4mm, sheet is on both sides of the compression flange.  The side in tension does not need stiffeners. This tension side is sufficient for bracing purposes against twisting and lateral movement.

RE: Steel sheet as lateral restrain?

For shear... in order to develop the tension, there has to be a compression component!

Dik

RE: Steel sheet as lateral restrain?

That's true - the more you push someone, the more tension you get...  

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: Steel sheet as lateral restrain?

My personal gut feeling would be:

Lateral restraint - yes
Torsional restraint - no.

Even if the plate can technically support the required bending moment it would be too flexible to eliminate torsional effects.

csd

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