GBT formulation to analyse the buckling behaviour of thin-walled members with arbitrarily 'branched' open cross-sections

Thin-Walled Structures

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 20-38

  Dinis, P B ^a   Camotim, D ^a   Silvestre, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

'Branched' open cross sections; Distortional buckling; Generalised beam theory (GBT); Global buckling.; Local plate buckling; Member buckling analysis; Thin walled members

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GENERALIZED BEAM THEORY (GBT); GLOBAL BUCKLING; LOCAL-PLATE BUCKLING; THIN-WALLED MEMBERS;

THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

EID: 32344440845     PISSN: 02638231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tws.2005.09.005     Document Type: Article

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