Inelastic buckling of channel columns in the distortional mode

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Abstract

Thin-walled channel sections may buckle in a distortional mode when subjected to compression. A variety of cold-formed channel columns were tested recently to study distortional buckling in the inelastic range. This paper describes a comparison of a theoretical method for predicting the inelastic distortional buckling strengths of thin-walled columns with the column tests. The method is based on a spline finite strip buckling analysis which takes into account the non-linear stress-strain behaviour of the steel making up the test sections, and the fix-ended test conditions. The inelastic buckling analysis is found to produce accurate estimates of the test failure loads and failure modes

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