Prof. Spiridione Buhagiar from the University’s Department of Civil Structural Engineering within the Faculty for the Building Environment has recently co-authored a paper about the mechanical behaviour and design of flanged cruciform section steel members.
Flanged cruciform section members are compound structural components that are typically fabricated with two identical hot-rolled I-section members with one being cut into halves along its longitudinal centreline and then both halves being fillet welded along the longitudinal centreline of the other I-section member.
Compared with conventional universal beam and column sections, flanged cruciform sections have advantages including increased axial load-carrying capacity and savings in steel weight.
Owing to these advantages, flanged cruciform section members possess great potential for use in high-rise buildings.
This paper, titled ‘Behaviour, finite element modelling and design of flanged cruciform section steel columns’, and which was published on Elsevier’s Thin-Walled Structures Journal Volume 204, aims to fill in the gap in structural design provisions.
The entire paper can be found online.