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Steel Wide Flange Weak Axis Bending

Steel Wide Flange Weak Axis Bending

Steel Wide Flange Weak Axis Bending

(OP)
How does the Tension Compression couple develop?
I am having a hard time wrapping my head around it.

I was thinking that each flange was in both tension and compression.... but i thought the flanges were taking shear weak axis?

Thanks



RE: Steel Wide Flange Weak Axis Bending

As in any section there are tension fibres above the neutral axis and compression fibres below the neutral axis. This then forms the couple to resist bending. A beam doesn't have to have flanges to have stiffness, however it is more efficient to have as much material as far from the neutral axis as possible to resist the moment and to make the best use of the materials.

RE: Steel Wide Flange Weak Axis Bending

(OP)
Are you saying the web is in both tension and compression?

RE: Steel Wide Flange Weak Axis Bending

If you bend a wide flange section about its weak axis, you are essentially bending two plates (the flanges) about their strong axis. The web just joins and braces the plates.

RE: Steel Wide Flange Weak Axis Bending

Yes, anything other than the neutral axis is either in tension or compression. So half the web is in tension and half is in compression.

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