Interactive buckling of thin-walled closed elastic beam-columns with intermediate stiffeners (Q675481)

This investigation is concerned with interactive buckling of thin-walled closed cross-section beam-columns with central intermediate stiffeners under axial compression and constant bending moment. The beams are assumed to be simply supported at the ends. An asymptotic expansion is employed in the numerical calculations performed by the transition matrix method. The aim is to study the equilibrium path in the post-buckling behaviour of imperfect structures using the first-order approximation.