Abstract
In the case of design for steel plates under in-plane combined loading, it is important to clarify the ultimate strength of steel plate panels in shear, although many studies on load carrying capacity of plate girders in shear have been carried out using experiments and plastic analysis. Moreover, evaluation of the ultimate strength is essential to promote the ultimate limit-state design method.
This paper presents characteristics of ultimate strength of steel plate panels under uniform shearing stress on the basis of the elasto-plastic finite displacement theory. The ultimate shear strength curves also proposed, to represent the theoretically obtained ultimate strength.
