Local Buckling Strength and its Statistical Information of Normal and Bridge

High Performance Steel Plates

Viet Duc DANG Yoshiaki OKUI

PhD student, Dep. of Civil and Professor, Dep. of Civil and Environmental
Environmental Eng., Saitama University, Eng., Saitama University, Saitama
Saitama Prefecture, Japan Prefecture, Japan
dangviet.duc@gmail.com okui@mail.saitama-u.ac.jp
Koichi HAGIWARA Masatsugu NAGAI
Master student, Dep. of Civil and Professor, Dep. of Civil and Environmental
Environmental Eng., Saitama University, Eng., Nagaoka University of Technology,
Saitama Prefecture, Japan Nagaoka Prefecture, Japan
alexander.f.f.9@gmail.com nagai@nagaokaut.ac.jp

1.Introduction
Since 2008, the bridge high performance (SBHS) steels with advantages of high yield strength and
good weldability have been standardized as SBHS500 and SBHS700 in Japanese Industrial
showing that they hold an Standard (JIS) [1]. However, SBHS steels exhibit different inelastic behaviour from conventional
have steels, such as almost no yield plateau and greater yield-to-tensile strength ratio. Hence, it is
necessary to examine the applicability of the current load-carrying-capacity design equation of
an
JSHB [2] for steel plates with new steel grades.
require
The format of partial factors has been employing popularly as in Eurocode and AASHTO.
the Regarding the predicting model on compressive strength of steel plates, the quantities according to
of the this format are nominal strength and uncertainty factor. The proposal of these quantities requires the
mean and standard deviation values of the compressive strength. The current study based on idea of
them Monte Carlo simulation and combine with response surface to obtain statistical distribution of
a normalized compressive strength. The measurement data of plate initial imperfections reported in
[3] is considered as the base of probabilistic characteristics of random inputs.
are

2.Examination of the JSHB design equation

Fig. 2: Idealized residual stress distribution Fig. 1: Normalized compressive strength of plate
the and sinusoidal initial deflection surface with 6 steel grades in the case W0/b=1/400 and
the rc/y=0.23
six For simulation plate model, the steel material model applies assumptions of isotropic elasto-plastic
The four hardening, Von Mises yield surface and strain hardening hypothesis. The assumed uniaxial multi-
linear stress-strain curves of 6 steel grades are idealized from actual experiments. 4 edges of plate
of the model are assigned as simply supports. The residual stress and initial deflection are idealized as a
simple stress distribution and sinusoidal surface with surface function shown in Fig.1. The compression
induced in the plate model is made by displacement control in 1 loading edge. The ABAQUS S4R
one
the
between the
shell elements are applied for meshing plate model with mesh size 30x30 elements.
the
The normalized compressive strength of steel plates (u/y) are compared in the case of mean value
six
of residual stress and initial deflection from measurement data reported in [14] with rc/y=0.23,
quite W0/b=1/400. As shown in Fig.2, in the whole range of R, the compressive strengths of steel plates
six
with 6 grades are pretty similar. The most significant difference occurs at R 0.7 and R 0.4, the
normalized compressive strength of SBHS700 steel plates (maximum value among 6 steel grades)
six is about 6% greater than that of the SM400 steel plates (minimum value among 6 steel grades).For
of the R > 0.4, the compressive strength of SBHS steel plates with greater YR value is greater than that of
normal steel plate with lower YR value. This results show the invalidation of conclusion in [4].
These

3.Compressive strength scatterness

The histogram
Histogram of compressive strengths of steel
the plates is obtained by application of response
a response surface and a large number of random inputs of
residual stress and initial deflection. The
convergent mean and standard deviation values of
compressive strength of steel plates are obtained
by processing 10000 random input couples of
the residual stress and initial deflection. In Fig.3, the
the amount mean values of normalized compressive strength
of steel plates with error bar equal to 2 times of
which standard deviation values are plotted along with
with the current JSHB design equation, mean (M) curve
and the
and mean minus 2 standard deviation (M-2S)
curve proposed in [3] .
to the
As shown in Fig.3, the mean values of
which were normalized compressive strength of steel plates
Fig. 3: Comparison between current study, are similar to mean curve reported in [3] which
of the
JSHB [2], and Fukumoto el al [3] results proposed from test results. Within the range
of the 0.65R0.85, the mean values of normalized
of the compressive strength of current study are slightly greater than that of mean curve reported in [14].
The reason is that the current study doesnt consider steel plates with W0/b>1/150 and within the
that was previously reported
mentioned range of R the influence of initial deflection on compressive strength is more
significant significantly than other ranges. Also seen in Fig.3, the M-2S curve proposed in [14] is too
conservative if compared to corresponding results of the current study.

4.Conclusions

to the The mean values obtained in the current study are similar to mean equation proposed in Fukumoto
et al (1984) [3] but slightly greater within the range 0.7<R<0.9.
of
The standard deviation values of compressive strength of the current study exhibits about half of
which was
that which reported in [5] within a range of 0.6<R<1.2 and have more reasonable tendency.
has a
Within the range 0.4R1.4, for the same levels of R and initial imperfections, the compressive of
presents an
steel plates is similar, however; compressive strength of steel plates with SBHS grades with greater
YR quantity is slightly greater than that of normal grades, so presents invalid conclusion in [4].
for

References
[1] Japanese Industrial Standard, JIS G 3140, Higher yield strength steel plates for bridges,
2008
[2] Japan Road Association, Specifications for Highway Bridges part II. Steel Bridges, 2002
[3] FUKUMOTO. Y., and ITOH, Y., Basic compressive strength of steel plates from test data,
Proc. of JSCE No.334/I-1, 1984.
[4] FUKUMOTO. Y., New constructional steels and structural stability, Engineering
structures, Vol.18, 1996, pp. 786-791