Month September 2020

Shear Lag in Steel Structures

If we consider ourselves attending a design class in the undergraduate degree program, once the design philosophies are over, the first design lecture would be on “Design of Tension Members”. Have you ever wondered, why we are learning this thing…

Lateral Torsional Buckling

What happens to a member, when it is subjected to transverse loading? A member subjected to transverse loading will undergo bending and start to deflect along the plane in which it is loaded. It seems so simple, right?    Now,…