Topic: Critical local buckling stress of poltruded RHS sections
- Undertake a literature review to enhance understanding of the behaviour of pultruded sections failure by local buckling.
- Develop a Finite Stip model using CUFSM that will allow the determination of the elastic critical buckling stress of channel sections subjected to compression, major axis bending.
- Carry out parametric studies to investigate the effect of key parameters, such as material properties and section aspect ratio on the elastic critical local buckling stress.
- Based on the results, propose empirical equations for the buckling coefficient of poltuded channel sections that incorporate both geometrical and material parameters
