Experimental Study on Mechanical Behavior and Failure Characteristics of Full Scale Steel Beam with Scallops under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading

Abstract

To investgate the failure charactristics of beam-to-column welded joints and the plastic deformation capacity of steel beam caused by scallops, a monotonic loading and cyclic loading one were carried out for full scale models which were cantilever beams. The present paper describes an outline of these tests and discussions on the ovserved test results. While the previous tests for reduced steel beams showed that the type of the scallop had an effect on the deformation capacity of the steel beam ^[6]-[11], the present test for full scale beams did not disclose that the plastic deformability would be governed by the type of scallop.