
Nowadays Cold Formed Steel (CFS) sections are extensively used in structural engineering works replacing the conventional hot-rolled sections. It is due to the inherent advantages of the CFS. In industrial buildings and also in multi-storey buildings it is mandatory to provide web openings and they are generally provided in CFS roof and flooring systems to accommodate the pipelines and the building services, which leads to the reduction of floor heights. The disadvantage of placing web openings are, it will influence the shear behaviour reduce the strength and shear capacity significantly. The beam stiffness will decrease when web openings are placed, so it will buckle the beam easily when high seismic force or working loads are acted. Also shear failure will takes place. To prevent these hollow flanges are provided with straight beams. So very limited research studies have been conducted on hollow flange CFS beam with web openings. In this study to avoid shear buckling, use the method of implementation of corrugated webs. This study is about how strength and the shear capacity are improvising by implementing corrugated design in cellular beams. Two methods are used for improvising. First is with different type of corrugated shapes. They are square type corrugation, rectangular type corrugation and trapezium type corrugation. Second is with varying the thickness of the web. In this method instead of stiffening the web externally, they are inbuilding it by these corrugation design. The test conducting are shear and flexural test. By this it is expected that the moment of inertia of web and strength will increase, also the possibility of shear buckling decreases. The complete study is carried out using a finite element method in ANSYs software. The results details that the corrugated web hollow flange cellular beams has less weight and more strength than the flat web hollow flange. So the corrugated web cellular hollow flange beams have better performance than the flat web cellular hollow flange beams.
Corrugated Web, Cellular Beams, Web Openings, Hollow Flange Beam
Corrugated Web, Cellular Beams, Web Openings, Hollow Flange Beam
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