Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Design rules for the lateral buckling of steel beams
- In
- Civil Engineering Transactions
- Imprint
- vol. CE19, no. 2, Institution of Engineers Australia, Oct 1977, pp. 162-165
- Description
Mr. D. A. Nethercote is a Lecturer in Civil & Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield, U.K.
Dr. N. S. Trahair, MIEAust, is Associate Professor in Civil Engineering, University of Sydney.(Paper C1002, submitted 29 November, 1977)
[This paper was awarded the R. W. Chapman Medal 1977]
- Abstract
The design of laterally unsupported steel I-beams is normally based on the elastic buckling loads for very slender beams, on either the yield or plastic collapse loads for stocky beams, and on an empirical transition for beams of intermediate slenderness which fail by inelastic lateral buckling. The various methods currently used to define both the limiting slenderness for beams capable of reaching their full plastic moment and the inelastic transition region have recently been reviewed. New and more rational methods of designing steel beams have been proposed and these are discussed in this paper.
