Technical
AD 534: Anchorage length of horizontal stiffeners in steel and composite beams with large web openings
In SCI publication P355 Design of composite beams with large web openings, some typographical mistakes have been found in the equations for the anchorage length of horizontal stiffeners. The corrected equations are given below. Given the age of the publication, and that rules will shortly appear in the second-generation Eurocodes for beams with large web openings, it is timely to also provide some background information on the design of horizontal stiffeners at large web openings.
In order to retain the accurate formatting of the equations in this technical paper, this article is available as a pdf download only.
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