Session Dates
03 Nov 2010
Abstract
High-strength cold-formed thin-walled steel sections have been widely used in the recent several years. However, distortional buckli ng or interaction between it and local buckling can occur for high strength cold-formed thin- walled steel members. This paper desc ribes a series of compression tests performed on lipped channel section columns with V-shape intermediate stiffener in the web and flanges fabricated from cold-formed high strength steel of thickness 0.48 and 0.6mm with nominal yield stress 550MPa. The lipped channel sections were tested to failure with both ends of the columns fixed. The test results of 16 specimens show that the local buckling usually appears before distortional buckling of the specimens and it makes the distortional buckling occur in advance. This interaction of local and distortional buckling may have the effect of reducing the stiffness and bearing capacity of the columns. The comparison on ultimate strength and buckling mode between test results and results of finite element analysis considering geometric and material nonlinear show that finite element method (FEM) can simulate the distortional buckling of cold-formed steel channel columns effectively. The calculative results using Direct Strength Method (DSM) of the North American Specification show that this design method couldn’t consider the reverse effect of interaction between local and distortional buckling on ultimate strength. Direct Strength Method (DSM) considering interaction between local and distortional buckling should be developed.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Wei-Wen Yu Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures
Meeting Name
20th International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2010 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Yao, Xingyou; Guo, Yanli; and Huang, Zhiguang, "Test and Finite Element Analysis on Distortional Buckling of Cold-formed Thin-walled Steel Lipped Channel Columns" (2010). CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018). 4.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/isccss/20iccfss/20iccfss-session2/4
Test and Finite Element Analysis on Distortional Buckling of Cold-formed Thin-walled Steel Lipped Channel Columns
High-strength cold-formed thin-walled steel sections have been widely used in the recent several years. However, distortional buckli ng or interaction between it and local buckling can occur for high strength cold-formed thin- walled steel members. This paper desc ribes a series of compression tests performed on lipped channel section columns with V-shape intermediate stiffener in the web and flanges fabricated from cold-formed high strength steel of thickness 0.48 and 0.6mm with nominal yield stress 550MPa. The lipped channel sections were tested to failure with both ends of the columns fixed. The test results of 16 specimens show that the local buckling usually appears before distortional buckling of the specimens and it makes the distortional buckling occur in advance. This interaction of local and distortional buckling may have the effect of reducing the stiffness and bearing capacity of the columns. The comparison on ultimate strength and buckling mode between test results and results of finite element analysis considering geometric and material nonlinear show that finite element method (FEM) can simulate the distortional buckling of cold-formed steel channel columns effectively. The calculative results using Direct Strength Method (DSM) of the North American Specification show that this design method couldn’t consider the reverse effect of interaction between local and distortional buckling on ultimate strength. Direct Strength Method (DSM) considering interaction between local and distortional buckling should be developed.
