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MEMBER PROPERTIES
[Sect. B4.
Case
TABLE B4.1a
Width-to-Thickness Ratios: Compression Elements
Members Subject to Axial Compression
Limiting
Width-to- Width-to-Thickness
Thickness
Ratio r
Ratio
(nonslender/slender)
Description of
Element
Unstiffened Elements
1 Flanges of rolled
I-shaped sections,
plates projecting
from rolled I-shaped
sections; outstanding
legs of pairs of
angles connected
with continuous
contact, flanges of
channels, and
flanges of tees
b/t
0.56
E
Fy
[a]
2 Flanges of built-up
I-shaped sections
and plates or angle
legs projecting from
built-up I-shaped
sections
b/t
0.64
kcE
Fy
3 Legs of single
angles, legs of
double angles with
separators, and all
other unstiffened
elements
b/t
0.45
E
Fy
d/t
0.75
E
Fy
h/tw
1.49
E
Fy
b/t
1.40
E
Fy
b/t
1.40
E
Fy
b/t
1.49
E
Fy
D/t
E
0.11
Fy
4 Stems of tees
6 Walls of rectangular
Stiffened Elements
9 Round HSS
Examples
Sect. B4.]
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MEMBER PROPERTIES
Case
TABLE B4.1b
Width-to-Thickness Ratios: Compression Elements
Members Subject to Flexure
Limiting
Width-to-Thickness Ratio
r
p
Description of
Element
Unstiffened Elements
10 Flanges of rolled
I-shaped sections,
channels, and tees
11 Flanges of doubly
and singly symmetric I-shaped built-up
sections
12 Legs of single
angles
13 Flanges of all
I-shaped sections
and channels in
flexure about the
weak axis
Width-to(compact/
(noncompact/
Thickness
noncompact)
slender)
Ratio
b/t
0.38
Stiffened Elements
1.0
E
Fy
[a] [b]
b/t
0.38
E
Fy
0.95
kcE
FL
b/t
0.54
E
Fy
0.91
E
Fy
b/t
0.38
E
Fy
1.0
E
Fy
d/t
0.84
E
Fy
1.03
E
Fy
h/tw
3.76
E
Fy
5.70
E
Fy
5.70
E
Fy
14 Stems of tees
E
Fy
hc /tw
hc
hp
[c]
E
Fy
Mp
0.54 M 0.09
17 Flanges of
rectangular HSS
and boxes of
uniform thickness
b/t
1.12
E
Fy
1.40
E
Fy
b/t
1.12
E
Fy
1.40
E
Fy
h/t
2.42
E
Fy
5.70
E
Fy
19 Webs of rectangular
HSS and boxes
Examples
20 Round HSS
D/t
0.07
E
Fy
E
0.31
Fy
[a] kc = 4 h / t w but shall not be taken less than 0.35 nor greater than 0.76 for calculation purposes.
[b] FL = 0.7Fy for major axis bending of compact and noncompact web built-up I-shaped members with Sxt /Sxc 0.7;
FL = Fy Sxt /Sxc 0.5Fy for major-axis bending of compact and noncompact web built-up I-shaped members with Sxt /Sxc < 0.7.
[c] My is the moment at yielding of the extreme fiber. Mp = plastic bending moment, kip-in. (N-mm)
E = modulus of elasticity of steel = 29,000 ksi (200 000 MPa)
Fy = specified minimum yield stress, ksi (MPa)