BEAM-COLUMNS

PROF. V. KALYANARAMAN
Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai 600036

email: kalyan@civil.iitm.ernet.in

DESIGN OF BEAM COLUMNS

INTRODUCTION SHORT & LONG BEAM-COLUMNS BIAXIALLY BENT BEAM-COLUMNS DESIGN STRENGTH EQUATIONS
Local Section Overall Member Flexural Yielding Flexural Buckling Modes of failure Ultimate strength

STEPS IN ANALYSING BEAM-COLUMNS ANALYSIS EXAMPLE SUMMARY

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INTRODUCTION
Causes Of Bending In Beam Columns
Eccentric

Compression Joint Moments in Braced Frames Rigid Sway Moments in Unbraced Frames Biaxial Moments in Corner Columns of Frames z x

SHORT BEAM-COLUMNS
fy PM fy fy MP Bending moment fy fy fy = fy fy + fy

Pcs
Axial compression

Fc M Combined compression and bending, P& M

Pcs = Ag * fy

MP = Z * fy

SHORT BEAM-COLUMNS
1.0 Fc/Pcs F0/Pcs Fcl /Pcs Eqn. 3 O Short column loading curve Failure envelope

Mo/Mp

Mmax/Mp

1.0 M/Mp

M / MP 1.0 Fc / Pcs + 0.85 M / MP 1.0

Eqn 3
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LONG BEAM COLUMNS

Non Sway Frame
M0
M0

P *

Linear Non-Linear
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LONG BEAM-COLUMNS
Sway Frames

M M0

LONG BEAM-COLUMNS
M0/MP= 0.0

M0

P/Pcr = 0.0 0.5 0.8 1.0

1.0

A 0.1

B 0.5 0.8

P. Pcr

0
1 P PE

0
1 P PE

M max =

1 P PE
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Cm M0

LONG BEAM-COLUMNS
1.0 Fc/Pcs
F0/Pcs Fcl /Pcs Long columns loading curve Eqn. 3 Short column loading curve

Failure Envelope

Mo/Mp

Mmax/Mp

1.0
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M / MP

SLENDER BEAM-COLUMNS
Uniaxial Bending
1.0 After correcting for sway and bow (P- and P- ) Short column failure envelope After correction for (P- ) effect P* P* After correcting for sway and bow (P- and P- )

1.0 Fc/Pcs
A

Fc/Pcs Fcl/Pcs

Short column failure envelope After correction for (P- ) effect

Fcl/Pcs

My/Mpy

1.0

Mx/Mpx

1.0

Minor axis bending

Major axis bending

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SLENDER BEAM-COLUMNS
Mx Mpx A C E D F F O F P/Py >0.5 B C Short Column Slender Column

P/Py < 0.25

Fig. 7 Beam-column Moment Rotation Behaviour

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BEAM-COLUMNS / BIAXIAL BENDING

Fcl/Pcs /r = 0 /r increases

My/ Mpy

Mx/Mpx

Fig. 8 beam-columns under Biaxial Bending

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DESIGN STRENGTH EQUATIONS

Local Section Failure

My Mx Fc + + 1.0 A g f yd Z x f yd Z y f yd
Overall Member failure

My Fc Mx +x + y 1 .0 Fcl M ux M uy
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STEPS IN BEAM-COLUMN ANALYSIS

Steps in Beam-Column Analysis
Calculate section properties Evaluate the type of section Check using interaction equation for section yielding Check using interction equation for overall buckling

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TM TT

Dm Ct b ph hoi bi Section Plastification Slender Beam-Columns c th b ph hoi do

Section Plstification Overall Flexural Yielding Overall Torsional-Flexural Buckling Cc hiu ng P- v P-

Intetaction Eqs. Conservatively Consider

Advanced Analysis Methods Account for P- and P- Effects, directly & more accuraely
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