Oriented Corrugated Web Steel Beams

I-section steel beams are highly used in steel structures, and the point of corrugated beams was had become known recently. In this research, various orientation assemblies of corrugated web steel beams were investigated to study the effect of web corrugation on flexure and shear behaviour. Ten models of simply supported beams and another eight of cantilever beams were studied by using ANSYS Mechanical APDL software under concentrated and uniform load. The webs were corrugated and oriented in trapezoidal shape in the direction of web cross-sectional plane. Non-linear finite element analysis was studied, and the results show that the corrugated steel webs in I-section steel beams have a low effect on beam flexural resistance and they can enhance beam shear resistance.