Buckling of ferritic stainless steel members under combined axial compression and bending

Abstract Experimental and numerical studies of ferritic stainless steel beam-columns have been carried out and are described in this paper. Two cross-section sizes were considered in the physical testing: square hollow section (SHS) 60 × 60 × 3 and rectangular hollow section (RHS) 100 × 40 × 2, both of grade EN 1.4003 stainless steel. The experimental programme comprised material tensile coupon tests, geometric imperfection measurements, four stub column tests, two four-point bending tests, two axially-loaded column tests and ten beam-column tests. The initial eccentricities for the beam-column tests were varied to provide a wide range of bending moment-to-axial load ratios. All the test results were then employed for the validation of finite element (FE) models, by means of which a series of parametric studies was conducted to generate further structural performance data. The obtained test and FE results were utilized to evaluate the accuracy of the capacity predictions according to the current European code, American specification and Australian/New Zealand Standard, together with other recent proposals, for the design of stainless steel beam-columns. Overall, the Australian/New Zealand Standard was found to offer the most suitable design provisions, though further improvements remain possible.

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