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Diagonal buckle in a torqued box

From:
http://www-mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk/web/library/enginfo/textbooks_dvd_only/DAN/buckling/intro/intro.html

The creator of the course on buckling writes:
"This photograph illustrates local buckling of a model box girder constructed from thin plates, not unlike the road deck of the Humber bridge above.

"Inclined striations are caused by shear loading in the web of a beam or in a torqued tube giving rise to compressive buckling stresses at 45o to the longitudinal direction as predicted by Mohr's circle."

Also see:
Kuhn, P., "Investigations on the incompletely developed plane diagonal tension field," NACA Report 697, 1940.

Kuhn, P.: Stresses in aircraft shell structures, McGraw-Hill, New York, Toronto, London 1956

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