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Experimental study on the composite action in sheathed and bare built-up cold-formed steel columns

Journal

THIN-WALLED STRUCTURES
Volume 127, Issue -, Pages 290-305

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tws.2018.02.002

Keywords

Column; Built-up; Cold-formed steel; Buckling; Collapse; End fucity

Funding

  1. U.S. Government [FA9550-11-C-0028]
  2. Department of Defense
  3. Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  4. National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship [32 CFR 168a]

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This paper reports on experiments addressing the buckling and collapse behavior of common built-up cold formed steel (CFS) columns. The built-up column consists of two individual CFS lipped channels placed back-to-back and connected at the web using two self-drilling screw fasteners at specified spacing along the column length. The experiments aim to quantify ultimate strength, composite action, member end fixity, and buckling interactions and collapse behavior for common built-up CFS members. The testing also explicitly explores the effect of sheathing, as typically employed in cold-formed steel framing, on the response. The experiments provide benchmarks for design that include specific considerations for both thin-walled buckling and fastener behavior. A total of 17 monotonic, concentric compression tests with a column length of 1.83 m (6 ft) are completed with an array of position transducers monitoring displacements at key locations. Tests are conducted with the built-up member seated in CFS tracks. Results indicate a large range of deformation behavior, with local global interaction and flexural-torsional modes common in many of the unsheathed specimens. Columns sheathed with oriented strand board on both flanges behave as braced against global buckling in the plane of the wall, and local buckling induced failures prevail. The end condition for the tested built-up members seated in track is determined to be semi-rigid, but generally closer to fixed than pinned.

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