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Elastic local buckling of thin-walled elliptical tubes containing elastic infill material

  • Bradford, M.A. (Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales) ;
  • Roufegarinejad, A. (Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales)
  • Received : 2007.07.11
  • Accepted : 2007.11.05
  • Published : 2008.03.25

Abstract

Elliptical tubes may buckle in an elastic local buckling failure mode under uniform compression. Previous analyses of the local buckling of these members have assumed that the cross-section is hollow, but it is well-known that the local buckling capacity of thin-walled closed sections may be increased by filling them with a rigid medium such as concrete. In many applications, the medium many not necessarily be rigid, and the infill can be considered to be an elastic material which interacts with the buckling of the elliptical tube that surrounds it. This paper uses an energy-based technique to model the buckling of a thin-walled elliptical tube containing an elastic infill, which elucidates the physics of the buckling phenomenon from an engineering mechanics basis, in deference to a less generic finite element approach to the buckling problem. It makes use of the observation that the local buckling in an elliptical tube is localised with respect to the contour of the ellipse in its cross-section, with the localisation being at the region of lowest curvature. The formulation in the paper is algebraic and it leads to solutions that can be determined by implementing simple numerical solution techniques. A further extension of this formulation to a stiffness approach with multiple degrees of buckling freedom is described, and it is shown that using the simple one degree of freedom representation is sufficiently accurate for determining the elastic local buckling coefficient.

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