Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by pd

  1. pd

    Inelastic column buckling

    rkillian A couple of observations on your question. Firstly, in order to get "decent", believeable results out of a 2nd order buckling analysis, I have found that you usually need to apply either a small lateral load (say 1.5 % of applied axial compression force) or a small lateral...

Part and Inventory Search