Session Dates

05 Nov 2014

Abstract

The local buckling, distortional buckling, and overall buckling would occur for cold-formed thin-walled steel members with lipped channel section. The effective width method is used to considering the effect of local and distortional buckling on load-carrying capacity of member in Chinese code. Especially, a very conservative stability coefficient of partially stiffened elements used to considering the local buckling and distortional buckling of flange of lipped channel sections. In this paper, the half-wave length, the elastic buckling stress of distortional-buckling of cold-formed thin-walled steel members with lipped channel section and the corresponding stability coefficient of partially stiffened elements were developed based on the energy method. With comparison among the calculated results of elastic buckling stress and half-wave length using the improved method and the Finite Strip Method, suitability and precision of the improved method were illuminated. Then, a uniform formula for the stability coefficient of partially stiffened elements considering both local and distortional buckling effect was established based on the proposed method. Finally, with comparison on lipped channel sections in the appendix of Chinese code and existing test results conducted by many researchers and the proposed method, it is shown that the proposed uniform formula had higher precision to calculate the stability coefficient of partially stiffened elements and the ultimate load-carrying capacity of cold-formed thin-walled steel members with lipped channel section.

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Research Center/Lab(s)

Wei-Wen Yu Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures

Sponsor(s)

National Natural Science Foundation of China
Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education

Meeting Name

22nd International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures

Publisher

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Document Version

Final Version

Rights

© 2014 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.

Comments

The first author gratefully acknowledgements the financial support provided by National Natural Science Foundation Projects of China (No: 51308277, 51078288) and the Science and Technology Research Projects of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education (GJJ14760).

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

File Type

text

Language

English

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Improved Effective Width Method Considering Distortional Buckling for Cold-Formed Thin-Walled Steel Members with Lipped Channel Section

The local buckling, distortional buckling, and overall buckling would occur for cold-formed thin-walled steel members with lipped channel section. The effective width method is used to considering the effect of local and distortional buckling on load-carrying capacity of member in Chinese code. Especially, a very conservative stability coefficient of partially stiffened elements used to considering the local buckling and distortional buckling of flange of lipped channel sections. In this paper, the half-wave length, the elastic buckling stress of distortional-buckling of cold-formed thin-walled steel members with lipped channel section and the corresponding stability coefficient of partially stiffened elements were developed based on the energy method. With comparison among the calculated results of elastic buckling stress and half-wave length using the improved method and the Finite Strip Method, suitability and precision of the improved method were illuminated. Then, a uniform formula for the stability coefficient of partially stiffened elements considering both local and distortional buckling effect was established based on the proposed method. Finally, with comparison on lipped channel sections in the appendix of Chinese code and existing test results conducted by many researchers and the proposed method, it is shown that the proposed uniform formula had higher precision to calculate the stability coefficient of partially stiffened elements and the ultimate load-carrying capacity of cold-formed thin-walled steel members with lipped channel section.