Abstract: This paper reports a detailed investigation concerning the local-plate and distortional elastic postbuckling behaviors of cold-formed steel lipped channel columns with web and flange intermediate stiffeners (the corresponding ...

Abstract: Glass fiber–reinforced polymer (GFRP) pultruded profiles are prone to web buckling and/or crushing when subjected to concentrated loads in the direction transverse to the pultrusion axis due to their low elastic and strength ...

Abstract: This paper proposes, for the first time, a design methodology against the web-crippling failure of pultruded glass fiber–reinforced polymer (GFRP) I-section beams, based on the direct strength method (DSM). This study took ...

Abstract: This paper presents the first seismic tests on a full-scale all-composite frame structure, constituted by pultruded glass fiber–reinforced polymer (GFRP) profiles, to the best of the authors’ knowledge. These tests were ...

Abstract: This paper presents an experimental study about the transverse tensile fracture properties of several off-the-shelf pultruded glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) materials, with different fiber layups and geometries and ...