Abstract: This paper presents an experimental investigation of cold-formed steel channels with complex stiffeners subjected to pure axial compression for fixed-ended columns. The complex stiffeners of the channel sections consist ...

Abstract: The paper presents design and numerical investigations into the strengths and behavior of cold-formed lipped channel columns using finite element analysis. A nonlinear finite element model is developed and verified against ...

Abstract: The design of cold-formed steel channels with complex stiffeners could be quite tedious in calculating the effective area using the effective width method in the current design rules of North American Specification and ...