Buckling behaviour of thin-walled regular polygonal tubes subjected to bending or torsion

Abstract In a recent paper (Goncalves and Camotim, 2013 [1] ), the authors presented an investigation concerning the buckling (bifurcation) behaviour of uniformly compressed thin-walled tubes with regular polygonal cross-sections (RCPS). The present paper complements the previous work by addressing the local and distortional buckling behaviour of RCPS members subjected to bending or torsion and aims at providing a novel insight into these phenomena. In particular, the specialization of Generalized Beam Theory (GBT) for RCPS, as recently proposed in Goncalves and Camotim (2013) [2] , is employed to obtain closed-form analytical solutions and also to carry out parametric studies by means of numerical analyses which are both computationally efficient (due to the small number of d.o.f. involved) and clarifying (due to the modal decomposition features of GBT). For validation purposes, solutions taken from the literature and also standard shell finite element model results are employed.

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