Distortional buckling formulae for cold-formed steel rack-section members

Steel and Composite Structures

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-75

  Silvestre, N ^a   Camotim, D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Distortional buckling; Distortional buckling formulae; Flexural end support conditions; Generalised beam theory (GBT); Rack section members; Warping end support conditions

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BUCKLING; CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESSES;

DISTORTIONAL BUCKLING; DISTORTIONAL BUCKLING FORMULAE; FLEXURAL END SUPPORT CONDITIONS; GENERALIZED BEAM THEORY (GBT); RACK-SECTION MEMBERS; WARPING END SUPPORT CONDITIONS;

STEEL STRUCTURES;

EID: 3142535217     PISSN: 12299367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/scs.2004.4.1.049     Document Type: Review

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