Steel Structure Design Criteria Nanning RB
Steel Structure Design Criteria Nanning RB
Design Criteria
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Table of Content:
1 General .................................................................................................................................. 3
1.1 Design scope ................................................................................................................ 3
1.2 Construction description................................................................................................ 3
1.2.1 Boiler building ..................................................................................................... 3
1.3 Codes and standards .................................................................................................... 3
2 Loads ..................................................................................................................................... 4
2.1 Dead load ..................................................................................................................... 4
2.2 Permanent equipment load ........................................................................................... 4
2.3 Live load ....................................................................................................................... 5
2.4 Snow load ..................................................................................................................... 5
2.5 Wind load ...................................................................................................................... 5
2.6 Seismic loads.............................................................................................................. 10
2.7 Fatigue load ................................................................................................................ 11
2.8 Temperature loads ...................................................................................................... 11
2.9 Accidental loads .......................................................................................................... 11
2.10 Initial imperfections ..................................................................................................... 11
3 Deflections and displacements............................................................................................. 12
4 Design of steel and concrete structures ............................................................................... 12
4.1 General ....................................................................................................................... 12
4.2 Fire rating ................................................................................................................... 12
4.3 Columns ..................................................................................................................... 12
4.4 Beams ........................................................................................................................ 13
4.5 Bracings ...................................................................................................................... 14
4.6 Anchor bolts, base plates and connections ................................................................. 14
4.7 Grades of steel structures & connection Plates ........................................................... 14
4.8 Steel platforms, stairs and ladders .............................................................................. 15
4.9 Concrete platforms...................................................................................................... 15
4.10 Roof and walls ............................................................................................................ 15
4.11 Surface treatment ....................................................................................................... 16
5 Load combinations in design ................................................................................................ 16
6 Foundations ......................................................................................................................... 17
6.1 Boiler building ............................................................................................................. 17
7 Design of connections for steel structures ............................................................................ 17
7.1 General ....................................................................................................................... 17
7.2 Welding Criteria .......................................................................................................... 18
1 General
1.1 Design scope
This design criteria describes design regulations and methods to be used in designing steel
structures for recovery boiler building (RB), located at site NO.7 Jingchun Road, Liujing
Industrial Park, Liujing Town, Nanning City, Guangxi Province, China.
The skeleton of the boiler house will be designed to be a structural entity. The steel
structure will be divided into vertical erection phases. There are a horizontally braced
stiffening platforms on top of each erection [Link] platforms are stiffening the frame
against horizontal forces of equipment, seismic and wind forces and transferring these
forces to vertical trusses on each outer wall line of the building.
Horizontal truss is a system consisting of platform beams and diagonal bracings. The
stiffening system also allows to decrease buckling lengths, because it gives lateral support
to columns.
Because the main skeleton must be braced before assembling equipment, the vertical
stiffening is made by locating braces along wall lines.
Design
Mandatory standards, to be followed:
• GB/T 22395-2008 Specification for design of boiler steel structures (English version)
• GB 50009-2012 Load Code for the Design of Building Structures (English Version)
• GB 50011-2010(2016) Code for Seismic Design of Buildings (2016) (English Version)
• GB 50017-2017 Code for design of steel structures (English Version)
• GB 50223-2008 Standard for classification of seismic protection of building
construction (English version)
• GB 55001-2021 General code for engineering structures (English version)
• GB 55002-2021 General code for seismic precaution of buildings and municipal
engineering (English version)
• GB 55006-2021 General code for steel structures (English version)
• GB 50191-2012 Code for seismic design of special structures (English version)
Materials
Recommended standards:
• GB/T1591-2018 High strength low alloy structural steels
• GB/T 706-2016 Hot rolled section steel
• GB/T 8162-2018 Seamless steel tubes for structural purposes
• GB/T 6728-2017 Cold formed hollow sectional steel for general structures
• GB/T 13793-2016 Straight seam welded steel pipe
• GB/T 3098.1 Mechanical properties of fasteners -bolts, screws and studs
• GB/T 5782-2016 Hexagon head bolts, Grade A and B
• GB/T 5783-2016 Hexagon head bolts, Full thread
• GB/T 6170-2015 Hexagon nuts
• GB/T 97.1-2002 Plain washers - Product grade A
• GB/T 11263-2010 Hot rolled H and cut T section steel
• YB 3301-2005 The welded steel H-sections
• GB/T 19879-2015 Steel plates for building structure
2 Loads
2.1 Dead load
Dead loads of the platforms and enclosure, as listed below
• Steel Platforms 0.7 kN/m2, grating (including Secondary beams)
• Platform of hauling areas 1.0 kN/m2, grating (including Secondary beams)
• Concrete Platforms 5.8 kN/m2, Concrete slab 200+50 mm
• Roof 0.75 kN/m2, Purlins and Corrugated steel sheet
• Walls 0.3 kN/m2, purlins and corrugated steel sheet
General load for main piping and cables on main platforms 0.7 kN/m2 and 0.2 kN/m2 on
secondary platforms, included in the platform live loads above or according to actual load
conditions.
Site terrain roughness category is taken as B (8.2.1: open country , village, underwood, hill,
villages and towns with sparse houses.).
[Link].1 Frame
Building height is approximately 73 m. Building wil be divided in three vertical sections for
evaluating the wind load:
Wind pressure height variation coefficient μz from 0-25m, 25-50m and 50-80 m are:
μz25 = 1.31
Shape factor μs for recovery boiler building shall be taken fromTable 8.3.1:
According to chapter 7.2.5, as the building height is less than 100m and height-width-ratio
is less than 5, the wind vibration coefficient βz is taken as 1.0.
wk = βgz*μsI*μz*w0 (8.1.1-2)
where,
βgz = gust coefficient
μsI = local shape factor
μz and w0 as in chapter 2.5.1 and [Link].1
Walls Roof
Wall μsI:
Windward Leeward Sideward Sideward
Sa Sb
+1.0 -0.6 -1.4 -1.0
Gust coefficient
Gust coefficient decreases along with the height, so having three stage division acc. Fig 2.
Gust coefficients are:
βgz25 = 1.61
βgz50 = 1.55 Table 14
βgz80 = 1.51
Characteristic wind pressures for envelope structures at different elevations are according
to following table:
KN/m2 Winward Leeward Sideward Sa Sideward Sb
W25 0.84 -0.51 -1.18 -0.84
W50 1.00 -0.60 -1.41 -1.00
W80 1.13 -0.68 -1.58 -1.13
For roof:
Roof μsI:
Ra Rb Rc Rd Re
-2.0 -1.8 -1.2 -0.6/+0.2 -0.6
μsl Local shape factor for wind load
KN/m2 Ra Rb Rc Rd Re
W80 -2.26 -2.03 -1.36 -3.39 -0.68
Characteristic wind pressure Wk [kN/m2]
Analysis will be made using modal response spectrum method, where the seismic base shear force
and the analysis of the structure is calculated with the assumptions of:
Building Category Type: Standard fortification type C (GB 50223, clause 3.0.2)
0.05−ζ
The damping adjustment factor η2 η2 = 1 + 0.08+1.6ζ = 1.156 (Eqn 5.1.5-3)
Response spectrum
0.050
0.045
0.040
0.035
0.030
0.025
0.020
0.015
0.010
0.005
0.000
0.000 1.000 2.000 3.000 4.000 5.000 6.000 7.000
Fig 8. Response spectra with actual values for boiler building seismic intensity 6
All the hot parts of boiler are insulated from structural steel parts.
Temperature loads are not considered
Overall initial geometric imperfections of the frame and bracing structure, Δ0, may be taken
as H/250, where H is the total height of the structure.
Steel frame will be modelled by FEM based analysis program. All the identified loads will be
added to model. The structure members will be designed according to GB 50017.
In structural analysis braces of stiffening platforms and walls are modelled as truss like
structures or beams with hinged ends
Safety grade 2 is applied, thus importance coefficient γ0 = 1.0 is used (4.10/[Link]). For
seismic checking a seismic adjustment coefficient γRE = 0.80 for strength calculation, and
γRE = 0.80 for stability calculation are used (GB 22395 Table 24 and GB 50011 Table
5.4.2).
4.3 Columns
In general following values for design parameters are assumed. L is the distance between
applicable stiffening levels.
Wall columns
• Buckling about major stiffness, the lowest part from foundation up to the
4.4 Beams
In general following values for design parameters are assumed.
Boiler beams and beams with big equipment loads
• Buckling about major stiffness:
o Distance between vertical supports
• Buckling about minor stiffness:
o Distance between the plane bracings
• Lateral buckling length:
o Distance between the plane bracings
The beams on stiffening planes; small equipment load
• Buckling about major stiffness:
o Distance between vertical supports
• Buckling about minor stiffness:
o Distance between horizontal supports
• Lateral buckling length:
o Distance between horizontal support of top flange (centres of the
platform purlins) or 1 meter in concrete platforms
Beams on other levels; small equipment load
• Buckling about major stiffness:
o Distance between vertical supports
• Buckling about minor stiffness:
o Distance between horizontal supports
Lateral torsional buckling length non-stiffening structures (maximum WI450 size):
• 0.6*L when there is grating platform (min. 2.5 m wide) along whole length of the
beam + secondary beams are connected with bolted connection to main beam
+ main beam height/width ratio h/b >=1.8.
• 0.8*L when there is grating platform (min. 2.5 m wide) along whole length of the
beam + secondary beams are connected with bolted connection to main beam
+ main beam height/width ratio1.2 < h/b < 1.8.
Secondary beams are assumed to be restrained by grating panels (min 2.5 m wide) so that
following lateral torsional buckling length can be used:
The above secondary beams LTB-length factors can be used only if the main load is live
load on grating and there is no significant equipment loads.
Grating panels must be connected to steel beams by bolts through top flange of the beams.
4.5 Bracings
Wall bracings
• Buckling length 1.0L
Horizontal bracings
• Buckling length 1.0L
4.6 Anchor bolts, base plates and connections
Anchor bolts, baseplates and connections will be calculated according to GB 50017,
GB50011 and GB 50191.
It is assumed that each bolt is anchored to concreate so that bolt yielding always happens
before concrete failure.
The anchor bolt lengths must be checked by customer’s civil engineer. Customer’s civil
engineer must design proper reinforcements around anchor bolts that bolt yielding is
possible before concrete failure.
In general following values for steel structures are used (note: design codes do not
recognize Q355, so for calculations Q345 is used instead) :
• Hot rolled and welded profiles Q355B
• Tube Profiles Q355B
• Plates Q355B
• L-profiles, C-sections Q235B
In special locations where there is high temperature, special heat resistant steel materials
might be used. These materials are defined case by case.
Non-preloaded connection:
• Nuts Grade 8 / 10
Preloaded connections :
Bolts Grade 10.9
Nuts Grade 10
Washers 300HV
Exterior walls: horizontal purlins and vertical corrugated sheet from EL+15.000 meter to
Roof
Pressure wall (partition) between boiler building and tower: Wall structure shall be
The structure safety grade is 2, Severe: Great impact on human life, economy, society or
the environment (GB 50068-2018, Table 3.2.1)
Boiler building
where,
S is the design value of action effect combination;
γG is the partial coefficient of permanent load, γG =1.35 shall be taken; where the
permanent load effect is favorable to the structure, γG =1.0 shall be taken;
γW is the partial coefficient of wind load, γW =1.35 shall be taken;
γQi is the partial coefficient of the i-th variable load, γQi =1.35 shall be taken;
SGk is the effect for characteristic value of permanent load;
SWk is the effect of characteristic value of wind load;
SQik is the effect of the characteristic value of the i-th variable load;
ψQi is the combination value coefficient of the i-th variable load, which is taken as 0.7
uniformly in the formula.
where
γG is partial coefficient for gravity load, 1.35 in case of unfavorable, and 1.0 in favorable
γEh, γEv horizontal and vertical partial coefficients, now γEh is 1.3 and γEv is 0
γw partial coefficient for wind load, taken as 1.35
γt partial coefficient for temperature load, taken as 1.4
γm partial coefficient for dynamic action of rotating machines, taken as 1.4
ψw combination value coefficient for wind load, now considered as 0
ψt combination value coefficient for temperatrure load, now considered as 0
ψm combination value coefficient for dynamic action of rotating machines, now taken as 0
SGE effects of gravity load
SEh effects of horizontal earthquake action, combined value coefficient for live load is 0.5
SEv effects of vertical earthquake action, now negleted
Swk effect of characteristic value of wind effect
Stk effect of characteristic value of temperaure effect
Smk effect of characteristic value of driving action effect of high-speed rotating machinery
6 Foundations
All the foundation loads given in drawings are nominal values without load combination and
safety factors. Foundation designer shall apply combination factors and formulas in
accordance valid local standards for concrete design.