Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Lateral buckling design strength of steel beams
- In
- Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia: Civil Engineering
- Imprint
- vol. CE26, no. 4, Nov 1984, pp. 319-326
- Description
Paper C1523
[This paper was awarded the R. W. Chapman Medal 1984]
- Abstract
Present methods of designing steel beams against lateral buckling are either so simple that many important effects are crudely approximated or omitted, or else require a very good knowledge of buckling research. In this paper, proposals are made of new design methods, which include an intermediate level of simplification. This intermediate level is based on the use of tabulated approximations to the elastic buckling resistance of beams under a wide range of load, support and restraint conditions. The resulting estimates form good approximations for the design strengths. The proposed methods are compared with present design rules.
