Distortional buckling of X-joints made of square hollow cross-section beams: theoretical energy-based model

Distortional Buckling Tests on Cold-Formed Steel Beams

Failure in cold-formed steel beams is generally initiated by one of three instabilities: local, distortional, or lateral-torsional buckling. For cold-formed steel joists, purlins, or girts, when the compression flange is not restrained by attachment to sheathing or paneling, distortional buckling may be the predominant failure mode. Experimental results on cold-formed steel beams with unrestrai...

Lateral and distortional buckling ofpultruded I - beams Ever

The elastic buckling modes of pultruded I-beams subjected to various loading conditions are studied. The coupling of lateral and distortional buckling, very likely to appear in thin-walled cross-sections, is investigated. Plate theory is used to allow for distortion of the cross-section. Shear effects and bendingt\\isting coupling are accounted for in the analysis, because of their significant ...

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DEVELOPMENT OF NEURAL NETWORK MODELS TO ESTIMATE LATERAL-DISTORTIONAL BUCKLING RESISTANCE OF CELLULAR STEEL BEAMS

The lateral-torsional buckling (LTB) strength of cellular steel girders that were subjected to web distortion was rarely examined. Since no formulation has been presented for predicting the capacity of such beams, in the current paper an extensive numerical investigation containing 660 specimens was modeled using finite element analysis (FEA) to consider the ultimate lateral-distortional buckli...

Determining the optimal cross-section of beams

Constrained shape discovery and optimisation are difficult engineering problems. Shape discovery deals with evolving randomly generated solutions into useful intermediate solutions. These intermediate solutions are then optimised to suite their environment. In this paper a Genetic Algorithm (GA) is applied to the problem of finding the optimum cross section of a beam, subject to various loading...