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- Title
Elastic buckling strength of corroded steel plates.
- Authors
RAHBAR-RANJI, AHMAD
- Abstract
Corrosion makes structures more vulnerable to buckling and yielding failures. It is common practice to assume a uniform thickness reduction for general corrosion. To estimate the remaining strength of corroded structures, typically a much higher level of accuracy is required, since the actual corroded structures have irregular surfaces. Elastic buckling of simply supported rectangular corroded plates are studied with one- and both-sided irregular surfaces. Eigenvalue analysis by using finite element method (FEM) is employed for computing Euler stress. The influence of various geometric and corrosion characteristics are investigated and it is found that the aspect ratio of the plate, the average thickness diminution, the standard deviation of thickness diminution and the amount of corrosion loss have influence on the reduction of buckling strength of the corroded plates. Buckling strength of one- and both-sided corroded plates are the same. In plates with low value of aspect ratio, reduction of buckling strength is negligible. Reduction of buckling strength is more prominent in plates with higher aspect ratio. Reduction of buckling strength is very sensitive to the amount of corrosion loss; the higher the amount of corrosion loss, the more reduction of buckling strength. Reduction of buckling strength is less sensitive to the standard deviation of thickness diminution.
- Subjects
ELASTICITY; MECHANICAL buckling; IRON &; steel plates; CORROSION &; anti-corrosives; PARAMETER estimation; FINITE element method; THICKNESS measurement
- Publication
Sādhanā: Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2013, Vol 38, Issue 1, p89
- ISSN
0256-2499
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12046-013-0116-6