EFFECTIVE STIFFNESS METHOD FOR CALCULATING DEFLECTION OF CORRUGATED WEB GIRDER

By introducing a shear rotation function accounting for the shear deformation in the webs, the paper presents a beam theory model of corrugated web girder, where the flexural behavior of corrugated web girder is modeled as the combination of truss action and bending action between upper flange and lower flange. Then analytical solutions for simply supported corrugated steel web girders and cantilever corrugated steel web girders are derived under uniformly distributed load and concentrated load, and the analytical solutions are well verified through a comparison with FEM results. In order to determine the deformation of corrugated web girders for the purpose of practical design, a simplified design method to calculate the deflection of corrugated web girders considering web shear deformation is presented by introducing an importance parameter. The deflections calculated by this method agree well with those obtained from experiments. According to the comparison of calculated deflections among different design methods for corrugated web girders, the simplified method presented in this study has good accuracy and is convenient to use.