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FROM:
Osama Bedair (OB Engineering Ltd., 151 Chapalina Mews SE, Calgary, Canada),
“A simplified procedure for predicting the ultimate strength of beam-column channel sections”, Engineering, Vol. 3, pp 973-977, 2011, doi:10.4236/eng.2011.310120
ABSTRACT: A design procedure is presented to estimate the load carrying capacity of beam-column channel sections. A reduced cross-section is used to compensate for the reduction in the post-buckling stiffness. The non-linear stress distribution acting on the entire channel width is replaced by simplified linear distributions. Using this simplified concept, the maximum stress in the post-buckling state, is assumed to be carried entirely by both edges while the central region of the channel remains unstressed. Thus a fraction of the channel section is considered in resisting the applied loading. This approximation enables the structural engineer to deal with a simplified stress distribution to compute the ultimate strength instead of the non-linear one.
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