ELASTIC BUCKLING RESPONSE OF ELLIPTICAL

HOLLOW COLUMN SECTION UNDER COMBINED

COMPRESSION AND UNIAXIAL BENDING

Under the guidance of

Dr. P. Jayabalan
Professor
Dept. of Civil Engineering
NIT, Tiruchirappallli

Presented by
T GOKULAN
203215002
3rd Sem. M. Tech. (SE)
Dept. of Civil

Contents

Introduction
Literature review
Summary of literature review
Objective
Parameter under consideration
Scope
References

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Introduction
Research activity in the area of elliptical sections
has increased in recent years due to their
emergence as hot rolled structural products.
Elliptical hollow sections(EHS) combine the
elegance of circular hollow section with the
improved structural efficiency in bending
associated with sections of differing flexural
rigidities about the two principal axes.
Research into the structural response of EHS
tubes has included testing, numerical modeling
and the development of design rules for crosssection in compression and bending
More recently, research focus has shifted to
member instabilities.
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Fig. 2. ABAQUS mesh of EHS tube

1. Major axis length- 2*a

2. Minor axis length- 2*b
3. Thickness
- t
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Literature Review (contd.)

1. J.M. Abela & L.
Gardner
journal of Thin-Walled
Structures 58 (2012) 4050

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The elastic buckling response of

elliptical hollow sections under any
linearly varying in-plane loading
conditions were performed.
An analytical method to predict the
elastic buckling stress has been
derived and validated against finite
element results.
The
comparisons
between
the
analytical and numerical predictions of
elastic
buckling
stress
reveal
disparities of less than 2.5% for thin
shells and, following an approximate
allowance for the influence of shear,
less than 7.5% for thick shells.

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Literature Review (contd.)

2. F. McCann, C.
Fang,
L.
Gardner & N.
Silvestre
Journal of Engineering
Structures 111(2016)
104-118.

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The local buckling behaviour and

ultimate cross-sectional strength of
tubular elliptical profiles in
compression is examined in this
study through numerical modelling.
It was found that for lower crosssection aspect ratios the behaviour of
the elliptical hollow sections (EHS)
was similar to that of cylindrical
shells across a number of metrics;
however,
as
the
aspect
ratio
increased, more plate-like stable
postbuckling
behaviour
was
observed. Imperfection sensitivity
was
found
to
decrease
with
increasing slenderness and aspect
ratio.
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Literature Review (contd.)

3. N. Silvestre, L.
Gardner
Journal of Construction
Steel Research 67(2011)
281-292

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The elastic local post-buckling

behaviour of elliptical tubes under
compression were studied.
It was concluded that EHS tubes with
a low to moderate aspect ratio can
support loads up to their limit loads
but are imperfection sensitive (shelltype behaviour), while EHS tubes
with a moderate to high aspect ratio
can carry loads higher than their
limit loads (plate-type behaviour)
and are imperfection insensitive.

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Literature Review (contd.)

4. F. McCann, L.
Gardner, W. Qiu

Experiments on concrete-filled
elliptical hollow section beamcolumns have been conducted to
examine their fundamental structural
Journal of Construction Steel
behaviour.
Research 113 (2015),
Plots of load against the lateral
185-194.
deflection at mid-height and load
against axial displacement are
presented for the specimens, along
with values of strength index and
ductility index.
It was found that the pre-dicted
resistances are safe for use in the
design of concrete-filled elliptical
hollow section columns either with or
without reinforcement, and loaded
either concentrically or eccentrically.
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Literature Review
5. K.H. Law & L.
Gardner
Journal of
Constructional Steel
Research 86 (2013) 1-16

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Experimental and numerical

investigations into the behaviour of
elliptical hollow section beamcolumns under axial compression and
uniaxial bending were performed.
The test results have been
supplemented by numerically
generated results based on validated
FE models to assess the influence of
member slenderness and crosssectional aspect ratio.
Design rules covering instabilities in
hot-finished EHS beam-columns have
been assessed and verified by
statistical analysis. The limiting
length concept has also been
extended to EHS beam-columns.

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Summary of literature
review
The majority of existing research in this field has
been focused on elastic buckling and in-elastic
buckling of EHS column section in compression.
Parametric study on EHS column subjected to
compression and uniaxial bending is found to be
scarce.

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Objective
To analyse the elastic buckling behavior of
Elliptical Hollow column section under combined
compression and uniaxial bending using finite
element package ABAQUS.
To investigate the variation of critical buckling
load and buckling modes with parameters like
aspect

ratio,

initial

imperfection,

length

of

column, thickness, and eccentricity.

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Parameters Under
Consideration
Length of column
Thickness
Aspect ratio
Eccentricity
Imperfection

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Scope
To study the buckling behaviour of EHS column
section.
Parametric study using finite element model.

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References

K.H, Law, L. Gardner, Buckling of elliptical hollow section

members under combined compression and uniaxial bending,
Journal of construction steel research 86 (2013), 1-16.
J.M. Abela, L. Gardner, Elastic buckling of elliptical tubes
subjected to generalised linearly varying stress distributions,
Journal of Thin Walled Structures 58 (2012), 40-50.
F. McCann a, C. Fang b, L. Gardner c, N. Silvestre., Local buckling
and ultimate strength of slender elliptical hollow sections in
compression, Journal of Engineering Structures 111 (2016), 104118.
N. Silvestre, L. Gardner, Elastic local post-buckling of elliptical
tubes, Journal of Constructional Steel Research 67 (2011), 281
292.
F. McCann, L. Gardner, W. Qiu., Experimental study of slender
concrete-filled elliptical hollow section beam-columns, Journal of
Construction Steel Research 113 (2015), 185-194.

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Thank You
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