Intermittently stiffened cold-formed steel GFRP composite lightweight built-up beams: Experimental investigation and performance assessment

MA Dar, N Subramanian, AF Ghowsi, M Anbarasu… - Thin-Walled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous attempts to develop lightweight cold-formed steel (CFS) composite sections have
successfully improved their buckling strengths but have been limited to unstiffened profiles …

Development of lightweight CFS composite built-up beams: Tests and flexural response

MA Dar, AF Ghowsi, AR Dar, SU Salam… - … of Constructional Steel …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although previous attempts for enhancing the buckling resistance of cold-formed steel (CFS)
built-up beams through intermittent stiffening, external stiffening and adoption of concrete as …

[HTML][HTML] Flexural design of cold-formed steel built-up sections failing by local buckling: Development of generalised direct strength method

SE Maizi, Y Hadidane, MA Dar - Engineering Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
This research paper presents a new flexural design approach for cold-formed steel (CFS)
built-up sections failing in local buckling, developed following an extensive numerical …

Incremental stiffening approach for CFS built-up-beams with large imperfections: Tests and flexural-behaviour

MA Dar, SJ Fayaz, S Rather, AR Dar, I Hajirasouliha - Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Cold-formed steel (CFS) members generally have slender cross-sections making them more
prone to geometric imperfections. The presence of different geometric imperfections with …

Flexural behaviour of cover plated CFS built-up beams composed of lipped channels: comparison of test and design strengths

M Anbarasu, MA Dar, AF Ghowsi, AR Dar - Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Built-up members are efficient in developing adequate resistance against large load
demands, and their efficiency largely depends on how adequately the built-up sections are …

Interaction between chord compactness and lacing slenderness in CFS built-up columns

MA Dar, DR Sahoo, AK Jain - Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Axial load-resisting capacity of a cold-formed steel (CFS) built-up laced column primarily
depends on the unbraced chord slenderness, slenderness ratio of lacings, overall …

Experimental investigation of four-point bending of thin walled open section steel beam loaded and set in the shear center

M Obst, P Wasilewicz, J Adamiec - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Thin walled cold formed structures were, and still are, very popular structural elements used
in mechanical engineering. Modern technology and the progress in materials engineering …

[PDF][PDF] Web crippling instability response in CFS built-up open beams: Numerical study and design

M Dar, AF Ghowsi, M Anbarasu, O Çelik… - … , North Carolina, USA, 2023 - researchgate.net
The adoption of cold-formed steel (CFS) in structural systems has risen significantly in recent
years due to various favourable features such as cost-effectiveness, speed of construction …

[PDF][PDF] Axial strength and stability behaviour of cold-formed steel battened closed section columns

MA Dar, DR Sahoo, AK Jain - Proceeding of structures stability …, 2020 - cloud.aisc.org
Primarily, structural members like columns experience high axial load demands, and the
monosectional cold-formed steel (CFS) profiles may not be adequate from strength/stiffness …

Effective strengthening of timber beams: Experimental investigation

MA Dar, N Subramanian, M Anbarasu… - Practice Periodical on …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
This paper presents an experimental study on the strengthening of rectangular timber
beams under monotonic loading. Both flexural and shear behavior of the specimens was …