Bearing stress and buckling of webs in crane runway girders under wheel loading

Publisher Summary The chapter discusses the bearing stress and buckling of webs in crane runway girders under wheel loading. It reviews the earlier research works on the elastic buckling of rectangular plates and web plates in I-girders subjected to patch load. The wheel load is another kind of patch load rarely touched in the literature. A simple model is recommended in the chapter to determine bearing stresses on the top edge of web plates in I-girders where the effect of the crane rail rigidity is considered. Based on this model, the buckling of the web plate under wheel loading is analyzed and formulae with excellent accuracy are suggested to predict the elastic buckling load.