Structural design of stainless steel members — comparison between Eurocode 3, Part 1.4 and test results

✍ Scribed by B.A. Burgan; N.R. Baddoo; K.A. Gilsenan

• Book ID: 104290122
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 183 KB
• Volume: 54
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0143-974X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0143-974x(99)00055-3

✦ Synopsis

The paper describes the test results of an ongoing major European research project which is concerned with the further development and refinement of structural design guidance for stainless steel. The paper concentrates on the work carried out to date on the design of beams, columns and beam-columns and compares the test results with resistances predicted by the design pre-standard for structural stainless steel, ENV 1993-1-4. In general, the design guidance is conservative. The tests on CHS beams indicate that the limiting diameter-to-thickness ratios for section classification can be considerably increased. For welded I-section beams, the ENV 1993-1-4 lateral torsional buckling curve appears very conservative and the less conservative curve adopted in ENV 1993-1-1 for carbon steel appears to give a better fit to the data.