Stability of angle-section members

A simple treatment of the elastic stability of angle-section members, both columns and beams, has been developed, based on the measured deformations of typical members loaded in the laboratory. Detailed mathematical models describing the torsional, or local buckling modes of the members are presented. Other buckling modes have been considered and the interaction of the various modes has been discussed. Angle-section columns, eccentrically loaded columns, cantilevers, centrally-loaded simply-supported beams, and laterally loaded columns, have been studied in particular.