GFRP composite footbridge series with multi-box cross section – Part 2: Local detailed design

2020 ◽  
Vol 253 ◽  
pp. 112799
Author(s):  
Marian Klasztorny ◽  
Kamil Pawel Zajac ◽  
Daniel Bronislaw Nycz
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Detailed Design ◽  
Gfrp Composite ◽  
Cross Section Part

scholarly journals A Numerical Study of the Effect of Component Dimensions on the Critical Buckling Load of a GFRP Composite Strut under Uniaxial Compression

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quoc Hoan Doan ◽  
Duc-Kien Thai ◽  
Ngoc Long Tran
Keyword(s):  
Uniaxial Compression ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Slenderness Ratio ◽  
Thickness Ratio ◽  
Buckling Load ◽  
Critical Buckling Load ◽  
Channel Section ◽  
Gfrp Composite ◽  
Thin Walled

In the practical design of thin-walled composite columns, component dimensions should be wisely designed to meet the buckling resistance and economic requirements. This paper provides a novel and useful investigation based on a numerical study of the effects of the section dimensions, thickness ratio, and slenderness ratio on the critical buckling load of a thin-walled composite strut under uniaxial compression. The strut was a channel-section-shaped strut and was made of glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite material by stacking symmetrical quasi-isotropic layups using the autoclave technique. For the purpose of this study, a numerical finite element model was developed for the investigation by using ABAQUS software. The linear and post-buckling behavior analysis was performed to verify the results of the numerical model with the obtained buckling load from the experiment. Then, the effects of the cross-section dimensions, thickness ratio, and slenderness ratio on the critical buckling load of the composite strut, which is determined using an eigenvalue buckling analysis, were investigated. The implementation results revealed an insightful interaction between cross-section dimensions and thickness ratio and the buckling load. Based on this result, a cost-effective design was recommended as a useful result of this study. Moreover, a demarcation point between global and local buckling of the composite strut was also determined. Especially, a new design curve for the channel-section GFRP strut, which is governed by the proposed constitutive equations, was introduced to estimate the critical buckling load based on the input component dimension.

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