Shear lag analysis of I‐shaped structural members

Abstract

SummaryI‐shaped structural members are widely used in civil engineering, mainly including I‐shaped shear walls and beams. In order to establish a unified method for analyzing the shear lag effect of I‐shaped structural members, first, the shear lag warping displacement is assumed as a quadratic parabola, and the additional deflection caused by shear lag effect is taken as the generalized displacement. The principle of minimum potential energy is used to establish the calculation method of the normal stress and deflection of I‐shaped shear walls and beams with 3 boundaries, which consider the self‐balancing conditions of shear lag warping stress. Then numerical examples are used to verify the accuracy of the calculation method; meanwhile, the shear lag characteristics of I‐shaped structural members are investigated. At last, the calculation method is used to study the shear lag effect of T‐shaped structural members. Studies show that the analytical results obtained by the calculation method are close to the finite element method results, and the calculation method can predict the flange normal stresses and negative shear lag phenomenon well. Moreover, the calculation method in this paper can be used to analyze the shear lag of T‐shaped structural members.