I have a beam that has a welded center section with a thinner web. The beams are on a 7% slope. The fabricator spliced the beams perpendicular to the horizontal.
Euler-Bernoulli beam theory states plane sections remain plane etc. Perpendicular to neutral axis.
Wondering some opinions on how...
Hello. Long time lurker but I have a bit of a project here. I have a multispan rigid frame bldg with non-prismatic members for both the columns and beam. The rigid frame has one interior column. So 3 columns total.
I am wondering if anyone has any literature on analysis/design of non-prismatic...
