Abstract: Recent work on the interactive buckling behavior of compressed sandwich structures (Hunt and Wadee, 1998) is extended to orthotropic core materials. The variation of the material properties can ...

Abstract: The concept and structural benefits of prestressing cold-formed steel beams are explored in the present paper. In the proposed system, prestressing is applied by means of a high-strength steel cable located within the cross ...

Abstract: An interactive buckling model for sandwich struts accounting for buckle pattern localization is extended to cover such struts with differing face plate thicknesses. Although this does not affect ...

Abstract: An accurate nonlinear hygrothermal-electro-elastic (HTEE) buckling analysis of piezoelectric fiber-reinforced composite cylindrical shells subjected to the coupled loading effects of axial compression and hydrostatic ...