Behaviour and Design of Structures 3 Columns Tutorial

The University of Edinburgh School of Engineering and Electronics

1) A grade S275 steel member is required to carry an unfactored tensile load due to wind of 150kN. It has a rectangular cross-section of 10mm x 100mm and is connected at each end by a bolt passing through a hole of diameter 20mm. Check the capacity of the member to EN 1993. 2) A column is pinned at top and bottom. It has no intermediate restraint against buckling about the majoraxis but is restrained against buckling about the minor-axis at mid-height by support providing full fixity (Fig. 1). The total length is 7m and the factored axial load is 2MN. Design the column to EC3. Intermediate steps might be: a. Determine the effect length about each axis. b. Select a trial section using the NCCI design charts. c. Calculate the flexural (Euler) buckling loads about both axes. d. Calculate the relative slenderness about both axes. e. Calculate design strength and compare with design loads.

Major Axis conditions 7m

Minor Axis conditions

Fixed against rotation in this plane

3.5m

Figure 1

Behaviour and Design of Structures 3

Columns Tutorial

MG, TJS, January 2008