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Flexural Strength of cold-formed steel built-up composite beams with rectangular compression flanges

  • Dar, M. Adil (Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) ;
  • Subramanian, N. (Consulting Engineer) ;
  • Dar, Dawood A. (Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Srinagar) ;
  • Dar, A.R. (Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Srinagar) ;
  • Anbarasu, M. (Department of Civil Engineering, Government College of Engineering Salem) ;
  • Lim, James B.P. (Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland) ;
  • Mahjoubi, Soroush (School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology)
  • Received : 2019.08.31
  • Accepted : 2019.12.01
  • Published : 2020.01.25
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Abstract

The past research on cold-formed steel (CFS) flexural members have proved that rectangular hollow flanged sections perform better than conventional I-sections due to their higher torsional rigidity over the later ones. However, CFS members are vulnerable to local buckling, substantially due to their thin-walled features. The use of packing, such as firmly connected timber planks, to the flanges of conventional CFS lipped I-sections can drastically improve their flexural performance as well as structural efficiency. Whilst several CFS composites have been developed so far, only limited packing materials have been tried. This paper presents a series of tests carried out on different rectangular hollow compression flanged sections with innovative packing materials. Four-point flexural tests were carried out to assess the flexural capacity, failure modes and deformed shapes of the CFS composite beam specimens. The geometric imperfections were measured and reported. The North American Specifications and Indian Standard for cold-formed steel structures were used to compare the design strengths of the experimental specimen. The test results indicate clearly that CFS rectangular 'compression' flanged composite beams perform significantly better than the conventional rectangular hollow flanged CFS sections.

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