Nonlinear Finite Element Analyses of the End Web Crippling Strength of W-Shape Steel Beams
The 1999 AISC Specification for Structural Steel Buildings establishes two design equations for the web crippling limit state at the supports. However, investigators have suggested that the basis of these equations, which is based on an assumed collapse mechanism, is conservative especially for lon...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34502 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08132002-121237/ |