Local, Distortional, and Euler Buckling of Thin-Walled Columns
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Structural Engineering
- Vol. 128 (3), 289-299
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-9445(2002)128:3(289)
Abstract
Open cross-section, thin-walled, cold-formed steel columns have at least three competing buckling modes: local, distortional, and Euler (i.e., flexural or flexural-torsional) buckling. Closed-form prediction of the buckling stress in the local mode, including interaction of the connected elements, and the distortional mode, including consideration of the elastic and geometric stiffness at the web/flange juncture, are provided and shown to agree well with numerical methods. Numerical analyses and experiments indicate postbuckling capacity in the distortional mode is lower than in the local mode. Current North American design specifications for cold-formed steel columns ignore local buckling interaction and do not provide an explicit check for distortional buckling. Existing experiments on cold-formed channel, zed, and rack columns indicate inconsistency and systematic error in current design methods and provide validation for alternative methods. A new method is proposed for design that explicitly incorpor...Keywords
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