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The interaction of local buckling and column failure of thin-walled compression members

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Applied Mechanics

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Thin walled compression members, as used in aircraft structures (Fig. 1), are subject to column failure (bending), torsional buckling and local buckling.

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Abbreviations

a :

wave amplitude of flange (imperfection)

b :

flange width

c :

half column depth, radius of gyration

e 0 :

wave amplitude of column axis (imperfection)

h :

thickness of flange

x :

longitudinal coordinate

K :

compressive load of eolumn

L :

column length

P :

compressive force of flange

W :

column deflection

α = a/h :

waviness parameter

ε :

compressive strain, or overall specific shortening (-ΔL/L)

η :

d(P/P l )/d(ε/ε l ), stiffness reduction factor

ξ :

Ï€x/L

()′:

d( )/dP/P l

suffix b :

refers to (b)ending buckling load

suffix f :

refers to (f)ailure load

suffix l :

refers to (l)ocal buckling load

suffix E :

refers to (E)uler column load

Reference

  1. Campus, F., and Massonet, Ch.: Comportement postcritique des plaques utilisées en construction métallique, Colloque international tenu a T Université de Liège les 12 et 13/11/’62, Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège, 5me série, tome VIII, fascicule 5. Interventions de W. T. Koiter et M. Skaloud pages 64–68, 103, 104.

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  1. Technological University, Delft, The Netherlands

    A. van der Neut

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  1. Department of Applied Mechanics, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA, USA

    Miklós Hetényi (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

  2. Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA, USA

    Walter G. Vincenti (Professor) (Professor)

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van der Neut, A. (1969). The interaction of local buckling and column failure of thin-walled compression members. In: Hetényi, M., Vincenti, W.G. (eds) Applied Mechanics. International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85640-2_31

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