Simulation of cold-formed steel beams in local and distortional buckling with applications to the direct strength method

Journal of Constructional Steel Research

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 581-590

  Yu, Cheng ^a   Schafer, Benjamin W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold formed steel; Direct strength method; Distortional buckling; Finite element analysis; Local buckling

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COLD FORMING MACHINES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COLD FORMED STEEL; DIRECT STRENGTH METHOD; DISTORTIONAL BUCKLING STRENGTH; LOCAL BUCKLING;

STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 33751312895     PISSN: 0143974X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcsr.2006.07.008     Document Type: Article

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