FEM-based analysis of the local-plate/distortional mode interaction in cold-formed steel lipped channel columns

Computers and Structures

Volumn 85, Issue 19-20, 2007, Pages 1461-1474

  Borges Dinis, P ^a   Camotim, Dinar ^a   Silvestre, Nuno ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cold formed steel lipped channel columns; Distortional buckling; Elastic post buckling; Elastic plastic post buckling; Local plate buckling; Local plate distortional mode interaction; Shell finite element analysis

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; BUILDING CODES; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; STEEL STRUCTURES;

COLD-FORMED STEEL LIPPED CHANNEL COLUMNS; DISTORTIONAL BUCKLING; DISTORTIONAL MODE INTERACTION; ELASTIC POST BUCKLING; ELASTIC-PLASTIC POST-BUCKLING; LOCAL-PLATE BUCKLING; SHELL FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS;

COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL);

EID: 34548421147     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2007.02.013     Document Type: Article

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