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Dr. Seshu Adluri: Structural Steel Design
Dr. Seshu Adluri: Structural Steel Design
Seshu Adluri
The new Tokyo Tower is set to be completed in 2011. It will stand 610m high.
Stable, neutral
and unstable
equilibriums
Long column
Radius of gyration r=
I
A
Effective length kL Symmetric (major)
Slenderness ratio kL/r axis
h
Principal axes (major and minor)
Critical Load Pcr b
Unsymmetric
Factored compressive strength, Cr (minor) axis
Buckling modes
Overall buckling
Flexural buckling
Torsional buckling
Torsional-flexural buckling
Local buckling
d 2w
EI 2 + Pw = 0; w = 0 @ y = 0; w=0@ y = L
dx
πx
Solution : w = A sin satisfies the b.c.
L
Substituting int o the differential equation,
π 2 πx πx
EI − A sin + P A sin = 0
L L L
2
π
− EI + P = 0
L
π 2 EI
Pcr = 2
L
Compression members -Dr. Seshu Adluri
Inelastic Buckling
US
practice
Free-Free L (1.2·L)
Hinged-Free L (1.2·L)
Hinged-Hinged
L L
(Simply-Supported)
Guided-Guided L 1.2·L
Clamped-Free
2·L 2.1·L
(Cantilever)
Clamped-Guided L 1.2·L
Free-Free L (1.2·L)
Hinged-Free L (1.2·L)
Hinged-Hinged
L L
(Simply-Supported)
Guided-Guided L 1.2·L
Clamped-Free
2·L 2.0·L
(Cantilever)
Clamped-Guided L 1.2·L
Residual stresses
in Hot-rolled
shapes (idealized)
Structural Steel kL/r < 40 40 < kL/r < 150 kL/r > 150
Aluminum Alloy
kL/r < 9.5 9.5 < kL/r < 66 kL/r > 66
AA 6061 - T6
Aluminum Alloy
kL/r < 12 12 < kL/r < 55 kL/r > 55
AA 2014 - T6
1 π 2 ECw
Fez = + GJ ro2 = xo2 + yo2 + rx2 + ry2
Aro ( K z L )
2 2
Fy
( )
−1 n
λ= Cr = φ AFy 1 + λ 2n
Fe
Closely spaced
channels