Effects of Web Height-Thickness Ratio on Longitudinal Residual Stresses of the Welded Monosymmetric I-Section

Abstract:

This paper descries work carried out using ANSYS finite element techniques to evaluate the longitudinal residual stress distributions of the welded monosymmetric I-section in various web height-thickness ratios. From the analysis results, it is shown that, with the web height to thickness ratio increased, the peak values of residual tensile and compressive stress in flange decrease, and the peak residual tensile stress in web decrease too, but the peak residual compressive stress increase. Meanwhile, the distribution width of residual tensile stress in flange and the distribution width of residual compressive stress in web all present increasing trends. The magnitude of the maximum longitudinal residual tensile stresses in both the flange and web reach the yield stress fy, while the maximum residual compressive stress in wide and narrow flange is close to 0.4 fy and 0.3 fy respectively, and the peak value of compressive stress in web which closes to the wide flange and to the narrow flange is about 0.4fy and 0.3fy separately. With the change of height to thickness ratio of web, the distributive width of residual tensile stress in flange or web is about 0.3 times of flange width or web height.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 671-674)
• Pages: 446-449
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.671-674.446
• Online since: March 2013
• Authors: Zhuang Nan Zhang, Ya Nan Zhao, Lu Jin
• Keywords: Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Monosymmetric I-Section, Residual Stress, Web Height-Thickness Ratio

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