Session Dates
05 Nov 2014
Keywords and Phrases
Cold-Formed Steel Column; Checkered Sheet; Experiments; Finite Element Simulations
Abstract
Since thin-walled structural analysis and design procedures are utilized for cold-formed steel columns, it is first necessary to understand thin plate behavior to employ proper cross sections which will serve under compression actions. As is well known, thin plates without any longitudinally and/or laterally stiffening elements usually are not present in structural applications. These stiffening elements significantly improve local buckling and collapse characteristics of plates, providing optimized solutions in terms of strength and cost. In cold-formed steel industry there exist some tailoring methods for columns to use the cross-section material more effectively. Designing lipped channels instead of plain ones or deploying rack sections can be shown as examples of stiffening and enhancing flange compression performance. Present study offers a novel tailoring technique which has the potential to improve collapse performance of cold-formed steel columns. Considering the manner of stiffening for thin plates, present work assesses cold-formed steel columns which are manufactured using stiffened sheets. Used stiffened sheets are called as checkered sheets which contain small stiffeners on thin plates in a shape of diamond pattern and are generally used to cover stairs and decks in outdoor environments to prevent slip. Aiming at investigating contributions of small stiffeners on compression performance of cold-formed steel columns, an experimental study was undertaken and column specimens were tested to failure. Plain channel test specimens were manufactured using press braking method and boundary conditions of specimens were designed in such a way that would represent fixed ends. Accompanying the experimental program, non-linear finite element simulation works and AISI-2007 method were employed for manufactured columns using equivalent thickness approach. Results imply that with the proper geometrical configurations, reserve of cold-formed steel columns manufactured using checkered sheets offer structural efficiency in satisfying greater compression loadings compared to that of columns manufactured using plain sheets of equivalent thickness. This stiffened sheets concept has the potential to be facilitated in cold-formed steel commercial and residential structures. More efficient sections also can be acquired for design purposes by optimizing those stiffener configurations under compression loadings.
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
Ekmekyapar, Talha; Göğüş, M. Tolga; and Özakça, Mustafa, "Tailoring Compression Performance of Cold-Formed Steel Columns" (2014). CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018). 3.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/isccss/22iccfss/session02/3
Tailoring Compression Performance of Cold-Formed Steel Columns
Since thin-walled structural analysis and design procedures are utilized for cold-formed steel columns, it is first necessary to understand thin plate behavior to employ proper cross sections which will serve under compression actions. As is well known, thin plates without any longitudinally and/or laterally stiffening elements usually are not present in structural applications. These stiffening elements significantly improve local buckling and collapse characteristics of plates, providing optimized solutions in terms of strength and cost. In cold-formed steel industry there exist some tailoring methods for columns to use the cross-section material more effectively. Designing lipped channels instead of plain ones or deploying rack sections can be shown as examples of stiffening and enhancing flange compression performance. Present study offers a novel tailoring technique which has the potential to improve collapse performance of cold-formed steel columns. Considering the manner of stiffening for thin plates, present work assesses cold-formed steel columns which are manufactured using stiffened sheets. Used stiffened sheets are called as checkered sheets which contain small stiffeners on thin plates in a shape of diamond pattern and are generally used to cover stairs and decks in outdoor environments to prevent slip. Aiming at investigating contributions of small stiffeners on compression performance of cold-formed steel columns, an experimental study was undertaken and column specimens were tested to failure. Plain channel test specimens were manufactured using press braking method and boundary conditions of specimens were designed in such a way that would represent fixed ends. Accompanying the experimental program, non-linear finite element simulation works and AISI-2007 method were employed for manufactured columns using equivalent thickness approach. Results imply that with the proper geometrical configurations, reserve of cold-formed steel columns manufactured using checkered sheets offer structural efficiency in satisfying greater compression loadings compared to that of columns manufactured using plain sheets of equivalent thickness. This stiffened sheets concept has the potential to be facilitated in cold-formed steel commercial and residential structures. More efficient sections also can be acquired for design purposes by optimizing those stiffener configurations under compression loadings.
