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Topic - Compression PDF
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