A new formulation for distortional buckling stress in cold-formed steel members

Journal of Constructional Steel Research

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 716-722

  Pala, Murat ^a  

^a GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Analytical methods; C sections; Cold formed steel; Distortional buckling; Explicit formula; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COMPACTION; ELASTICITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

BUCKLING STRESS; C-SECTIONS; COLD-FORMED STEELS;

STEEL STRUCTURES;

EID: 33644852318     PISSN: 0143974X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcsr.2005.09.011     Document Type: Article

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