Biaxial Bending and Torsion of Steel Equal Angle Section Beams
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 133, Issue 1
Abstract
Although steel single angle sections are commonly used as beams to support distributed loads which cause biaxial bending and torsion, their behavior may be extremely complicated, and the accurate prediction of their strengths very difficult. Further, many design codes do not have design rules for torsion, while some recommendations are unnecessarily conservative, or are of limited application, or fail to consider some effects which are thought to be important. This paper is one of a series on the behavior and design of single angle section steel beams. Two previous papers have studied the biaxial bending and torsion of restrained beams, a third has studied the lateral buckling of unrestrained beams, a fourth the biaxial bending of unrestrained beams, and a fifth and sixth the buckling and torsion of unrestrained beams. In each paper, simple design methods have been developed. In this present paper, an approximate method of predicting the second-order deflections and twist rotations of steel equal angle section beams under biaxial bending and torsion is developed. This method is then used to determine the approximate maximum biaxial bending moments in such beams, which are then used with the section moment capacity proposals of the first paper and the lateral buckling proposals of the third paper to approximate the member capacities.
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Received: Nov 15, 2005
Accepted: May 10, 2006
Published online: Jan 1, 2007
Published in print: Jan 2007
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Note. Associate Editor: Benjamin W. Schafer
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