Axial Bearing Capacity Design Method of Cold-Formed Steel Quadruple-C Built-up Section Members
NIE Shao-feng,ZHOU Tian-hua,YANG Dong-hua and ZHNG Ya-jiang
DOI:10.11835/j.issn.1674-4764.2011.04.005
Received January 06, 2011,Revised , Accepted , Available online July 01, 2015
Volume ,2011,Pages 20-28
- Abstract
The finite element model involving geometric large deformation,materials and contact nonlinearity is established.Specimens of cold-formed steel quadruple-C built-up section members are simulated and the finite element models are proved to be valid.Then,numerical analysis on the behavior of specimens with different slenderness ratio and flange flakiness ratio are carried out,and then the axial bearing capacities of specimens are obtained.Based on effective width method and direct strength method (DSM) in related codes,two design methods of cold-formed steel quadruple-C built-up section members under axial compression are proposed:effective length method and correction factor method.It is shown that:the final failure characteristics of all specimens are local buckling and distortional buckling.In the case of not considering the reduction of effective length,the results calculated by each code are slightly lower than those of test and FEM when the slenderness ratio is less than 50,while the results are too conservative when the slenderness ratio is more than 50.