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Lecture 15
Dr. Bidisha Ghosh
Notes:
http://www.tcd.ie/civileng/Staff/Bidisha.
Ghosh/Solids & Structures
Buckling of Columns
What is buckling?
Long Columns
Short Columns
(for a
I
A
Classification of Columns
End Conditions
Different End-Conditions
Failure Stress
The
long/slender columns which fail by bucking
the load can be calculated using the formula
for
EULER
2 BUCKLING LOAD (Also called critical buckling
load)
Pcr
EI
Le 2
cr the E
modulus, end support condition)
of
cr
2 column:.
A
x
b
Iy>Iz
Example
Determine the thickness of a round steel
tubular strut, 375mm external diameter and
2.5m long, pin-jointed at the ends, to withstand
an axial load of 39000kN. E=200GPa.
2.
Moment-curvature
equation:
d2y
3.
M EI
dx 2
0;
where
dx 2
EI
2. So,y A sin x B cos x;
From boundary conditions, B=0 & A sin L 0
L 0, , 2 ,3 .....
P
n (n 1, 2,...)
EI
n 2 2 EI
P
L2
and , L