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The Structural Engineer, Volume 77, Issue 22, 1999
Malta being situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, the natural disasters discussed are earthquakes und related perils, volcanism, and tsunamis. D.H. Camilleri
CO2 and sustainable development Andy Beeton has written from Agnon in France: First, I really think that Verulam ought to have his own e-mail address by now! (He has: see end of column!)
The aim of this paper is to improve the current shape limitation requirements of BS 5400: Part 3, which are known to be unduly conservative, especially when applied to assessment of existing structures. A practical method for designing flat-bar-stiffened plating against local buckling, without limitations on section slenderness, is presented. Behavioural insight and validation is provided by 75 finite element (FE) solutions and by laboratory experiments. Strength curves for design are given, which are functions of the system critical stress, expressed as the critical slenderness parameters ep and es for the plate and for the stiffener. The system critical stress is found according to the method described in ref 1. The strength of the stiffened plate is then found by adding the plate strength to the stiffener strength. S.K.G. Chou, J.C. Chapman and P.C. Davidson