SUST

School of Civil Engineering

th
5 Class – Department of the Structure

Structural Steel Design II

According to BS 5950-1:2000

Tutorial No. (2)

Compound Beam

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Structural Steel Design (BS 5950-1:2000) Compound Beam

Example (Design)

1) Design a compound beam section and check the Design data:

deflection and shear, assuming a uniform section Steel grade S275
throughout. The estimated uniformly distributed dead load
(including the self-weight)
2) Check the web of the beam for buckling and
The uniformly distributed imposed load
bearing, assuming that plates are not curtailed.
Beam span
3) Design the flange plate to universal beam welds. Limited overall depth of the beam
4) Determine the theoretical cut-off point and actual The beam is supported over a column & the
cut-off length for the flange plates. stiff bearing length ( )
Take the distance ( )
Full lateral support is provided to the compression flange.
Solution:

1. Loading:
1.1 Design load:
( ) ( )
1.2 Design moment & shear:
( ) ( )

( )

2. Assembling of the compound beam:

2.1 Required section modulus:

2.2 Universal Beam (UB): ( )

( ) ( ) ( )

610×229 UB 140
( ) (
( )
)

2.3 Flange plates:

( )
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( )
( )
( )
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Structural Steel Design (BS 5950-1:2000) Compound Beam

3. Check for Moment:

3.1 Classification of the section: ( )

√ √

( ) ( ) ( )

( ) ( ) ( )

( ) ( ) ( )

( ) ( )
( ) ( )

3.2 Moment capacity ( ): ( )

( )

( )
( ( ))

( ) ( ) ( )

4. Check for Deflection:

4.1 Permissible deflection: ( )

( )

4.2 Actual deflection: ( )

( ( ) )

( )( )
( )( )

( ) ( )

5. Check for shear: ( )

-
( )( ) ( )
( )

6. Check web bearing capacity ( ): ( )

( )
I-
( ) ( )
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( ( ))
( )
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Structural Steel Design (BS 5950-1:2000) Compound Beam

7. Web buckling capacity ( ): ( )

( )
( )

( ) ( )

√( )

( )( )
( )
( ) √( )( )

( )

( )

8. Design of weld: ( )

( ) ( )( )( )( )
[ ] [ ] ( )

( ) ( )
( )
( )( ) ( )

( )

9. Theoretical cut-off point of flange plates:

( )( )

( )
-

( )

10. Actual cut-off length of flange plates:

-
( )

( )( )

( )

[ ] ( )

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