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Steel and Composite Structures
  Volume 1, Number 1, March 2001 , pages 75-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2001.1.1.075
 


The ECBL approach for interactive buckling of thin-walled steel members
Dan Dubina(Romania)

 
Abstract
    Actual buckling curves are always characterised by the erosion of ideal buckling curves. Inrncase of compact sections this erosion is due to the imperfections, while for thin-walled members, arnsupplementary erosion is induced by the phenomenon of coupled instabilities. The ECBL approach-rnErosion of Critical Bifurcation Load - represents a practical and convenient tool to characterise therninstability behaviour of thin-walled members. The present state-of-art paper describes the theoreticalrnbackground of this method and the applications to cold-formed steel sections in compression andrnbending. Special attention is paid to the evaluation methods of erosion coefficient and to their validation.rnThe ECBL approach can be also used to the plastic-elastic interactive buckling of thin-walled members,rnand the paper provides significant results on this line.
 
Key Words
    thin-walled steel sections; local buckling; overall buckling; critical load; coupled instabilities;rnimperfections; erosion; coupling range; buckling curves; local plastic mechanism.
 
Address
Department of Steel Structures and Structural Mechanics, Civil Engineering and Architecture Faculty,?olitehnica?University of Timisoara, Stadion 1, RO-1900, Timisoara, Romania
 

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