Efficient computation of buckling loads for plane steel frames with tapered members

Engineering Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 771-775

  Bazeos, Nikitas ^a   Karabalis, Dimitris L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

2 D frames; Buckling load; Design charts; Exact formulation; Tapered columns

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUCKLING; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; STEEL; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

BUCKLING LOADS; DESIGN CHARTS; EXACT FORMULATION; PLANE STEEL FRAMES; TAPERED COLUMNS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FRAMES;

STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUCKLING; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; STEEL; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

BUCKLING; STEEL STRUCTURE;

EID: 30844462513     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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