Session Dates
05 Nov 2014
Abstract
Dimpled steel products are produced from the combination of an innovative dimpling process and a traditional forming process such as cold-roll forming or press-braking. The wider use of cold-formed dimpled steel members has promoted considerable interest in the local instability and strength of these members. Of particular interest is their buckling behaviour and ultimate strength capacity. However, the dimpling process produces cold-formed sections with a complex ‘dimpled’ surface topography and the ‘dimpled’ material is nonuniformly work hardened through the entire thickness. Owing to these complex issues, there are no existing methods to calculate the buckling strength of the dimpled products and validate against physical measurements. This paper presents a Finite Element analysis of the compressive behaviour of cold-formed dimpled steel columns. True stress-strain data obtained from physical tests were incorporated into nonlinear simulations of dimpled steel columns. The simulation results were compared with compression test results on dimpled channel and lipped channel columns and good agreements in both buckling and ultimate strength were obtained. It is demonstrated that the Finite Element analysis can therefore be used to analyse and design cold-formed dimpled steel columns.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Wei-Wen Yu Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures
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.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Nguyen, V. B.; English, M. A.; and Castellucci, M. A., "Finite Element Analysis of Cold-Formed Dimpled Steel Columns" (2014). CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018). 1.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/isccss/22iccfss/session02/1
Finite Element Analysis of Cold-Formed Dimpled Steel Columns
Dimpled steel products are produced from the combination of an innovative dimpling process and a traditional forming process such as cold-roll forming or press-braking. The wider use of cold-formed dimpled steel members has promoted considerable interest in the local instability and strength of these members. Of particular interest is their buckling behaviour and ultimate strength capacity. However, the dimpling process produces cold-formed sections with a complex ‘dimpled’ surface topography and the ‘dimpled’ material is nonuniformly work hardened through the entire thickness. Owing to these complex issues, there are no existing methods to calculate the buckling strength of the dimpled products and validate against physical measurements. This paper presents a Finite Element analysis of the compressive behaviour of cold-formed dimpled steel columns. True stress-strain data obtained from physical tests were incorporated into nonlinear simulations of dimpled steel columns. The simulation results were compared with compression test results on dimpled channel and lipped channel columns and good agreements in both buckling and ultimate strength were obtained. It is demonstrated that the Finite Element analysis can therefore be used to analyse and design cold-formed dimpled steel columns.
