• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.281-301
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• 2004

The paper begins by presenting a unified variational approach to the lateral-torsional buckling (LTB) analysis of doubly symmetric prismatic and tapered thin-walled beams with open cross-sections, which accounts for the influence of the pre-buckling deflections. This approach (i) extends the kinematical assumptions usually adopted for prismatic beams, (ii) consistently uses shell membrane theory in general coordinates and (iii) adopts Trefftz's criterion to perform the bifurcation analysis. The proposed formulation is then applied to investigate the influence of the pre-buckling deflections on the LTB behaviour of prismatic and web-tapered I-section simply supported beams and cantilevers. After establishing an interesting analytical result, valid for prismatic members with shear centre loading, several elastic critical moments/loads are presented, discussed and, when possible, also compared with values reported in the literature. These numerical results, which are obtained by means of the Rayleigh-Ritz method, (i) highlight the qualitative differences existing between the LTB behaviours of simply supported beams and cantilevers and (ii) illustrate how the influence of the pre-buckling deflections on LTB is affected by a number of factors, namely ($ii_1$) the minor-to-major inertia ratio, ($ii_2$) the beam length, ($ii_3$) the location of the load point of application and ($ii_4$) the bending moment diagram shape.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.45-49
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 미국 AISC-LRFD기준에서 제시하고 있는 웨브 변단면 I형 보의 탄성 좌굴강도 산정식을 고찰하였다. 미국 AISC-LRFD 기준의 기본 개념은 웨브 변단면 보를 가장 작은 단면과 동일한 크기를 가지면서 길이가 다른 등가 일정단면보로 대치하는 것이다. 또한 비지지 구간에 작용하는 응력 구배와 이웃한 보의 횡방향 구속효과를 고려하기 위하여 수정계수(B)를 적용하고 있다. AISC-LRFD 기준에 제시된 수정계수(B)와 유한요소해석결과와의 비교를 통해 본 논문에서는 수정계수(B)를 산정하기 위한 재 정의된 방법을 제안하였다.