Abstract: Slender open-section cold-formed steel members that contain flanges with edge stiffeners may buckle in different modes and with mode interactions. The element design approach (effective width method) has been shown to ...

Abstract: Single point, self-drilling fasteners are commonly used in light-gauge steel constructions including domestic, agricultural, and industrial structures. Fasteners installed in practice often suffer from a variety of in situ ...

Abstract: This paper presents a general design procedure for calculating the moment capacity of sections containing unstiffened elements with stress gradient. The method uses design equations for effective widths of unstiffened ...

Abstract: Details of a dual-actuator rig developed for testing rectangular plates simply supported on three sides, with the remaining (longitudinal) edge free, under combined uniaxial compression and in-plane bending are presented. ...

Abstract: Current American design provisions treat unstiffened elements under stress gradients as if they were uniformly compressed for effective width calculations. Australian, British, and European design provisions allow accurate ...