Design of Single and Multiple Angle Columns and Beams
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 123, Issue 7
Abstract
Metal angle sections, singly or in combination, acting as concentric or eccentric columns, beams, or beam-columns, may buckle in flexure or torsion, or combinations thereof. The behavior of such structural elements is discussed, and simplified design formulas using a uniform treatment are suggested. The use of normalized slendernesses for all modes of buckling, with a normalized buckling curve, is described. Local buckling and torsional buckling are differentiated and the special cases in which local buckling can occur are identified. Single and double angles acting as concentrically and eccentrically loaded columns, and as beams with combined moments are treated. Failure modes are overall buckling in columns, beams, and beam-columns, and yielding or local buckling at the extreme fibers of beams and beam-columns.
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Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 123 • Issue 7 • July 1997
Pages: 847 - 856
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Copyright © 1997 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Jul 1, 1997
Published in print: Jul 1997
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