Lower bound estimation of load-carrying capacity of thin-walled structures with intermediate stiffeners

The design of thin structures must take into account the overall instability and the instability of component plates in the form of local buckling. This investigation is concerned with the interactive buckling of thin-walled structures with central intermediate stiffeners under axial compression and/or a constant bending moment. The structures are assumed to be simply supported at the ends. The lower bound estimation of load-carrying capacity on the basis of the post-buckling behaviour of thin-walled structures with imperfections is studied when the distortional deformations are taken into account. The asymptotic expansion established by Byskov and Hutchinson (AIAA J. 15 (1977) 941) is employed in the numerical calculations performed using the transition matrix method. The present paper is a continuation of previous work by the authors (Int. J. Solids Struct. 32 (1995) 1501; 33 (1996) 315; 37 (2000) 3323), where the interactive buckling of thin-walled beam-columns with central intermediate stiffeners in the first- and the second-order approximation were considered. In the solution obtained, the transformation of buckling modes with an increase in the load up to the ultimate load, the effect of cross-sectional distortions and the shear lag phenomenon are included. The results obtained are compared with data reported by other authors.

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