Effect of Cladding and Secondary Members on the Elastic Stability of Main Columns

The corrugated steel cladding used to cover most of steel buildings is considered as non-structural element. This research will reflect the effect of cladding as a shear diaphragm in increasing the normal elastic capacity of columns. This study is important because of the lack of information of the behavior of cladding and secondary members in various codes. Mathematical models for six different cases are carried by software. The results extracted from the program have been plotted showing the effects of different variables on the ultimate load of column. The variables considered in our research are the spacing between columns and the thickness of the corrugated sheet representing the sheet stiffness.

Authors:

• Mohamed Massoud El Sadaawy
• Ehab Hasan Ahmed Hasan Ali

Keywords:

• Stability of frames about minor axis
• The effective length factor
• Effect of secondary members on elastic buckling load column
• The stiffness of sheeting.

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