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Shear Lag in Steel Structures

If we consider ourselves attending a design class in the undergraduate degree program, once the design philosophies are over, the first design lecture would be on “Design of Tension Members”. Have you ever wondered, why we are learning this thing…

Why web takes all the shear in an I- section?

During the initial stage of one’s career, every design engineer, especially a steel design engineer would have come across this statement “Bending force is carried by the flange of an I-Section, and shear force is taken care of by the…