Stiffeners are secondary plates or sections which are attached to beam webs or flanges to stiffen them against out of plane deformations. Almost all main bridge beams will have stiffeners. However, most will only have transverse web stiffeners, i.e. vertical stiffeners attached to the web.
2021年7月21日 · Stiffener plates are used for two main purposes: to increase the load-carrying capacity of hollow parts and to improve the appearance of the part. Load-carrying capacity for stiffened plates is based on plate hickness and width, …
A stiffened plates consists of a system of beams interacting with a uniform thickness plate. Photos of typical stiffened plates used in civil engineering, ship buildings and other segment of the economy are shown in Figure (\(\PageIndex{2}\)).
What Is Stiffener Plate? Stiffener plate is a structural component used to reinforce and strengthen plate girders, making them more rigid. They are typically plates that are welded to the web of the girder.
Longitudinally stiffened steel plates are becoming increasingly important in bridge design as the size and span of new bridges increases. This paper presents a new method for the design of longitudinally stiffened plates, with or without transverse stiffeners.
In this paper, the performance of thin plates using a range of stiffening approaches were studied for the specific instance of compressive loading. Periodic, graded, stepped, “Voronoi” stochastic, and topologically optimized patterns were explored.
2011年6月16日 · The stiffeners are typically steel plates welded to the web as shown in the figures. However, it is possible to bolt angles and other shapes to the web to accomplish the same purpose. In these cases basic principles of statics are used to compute the moments of inertia for the attached elements.