Abstract
The results of an extensive experimental campaign on centric and eccentric compressive behavior of thin-walled steel uprights of pallet-rack systems are presented. The analyzed cold-formed profiles are perforated through their whole length and have open, mono-symmetric cross-sections. Experimental results are extended through finite-element simulations, including geometrical and material nonlinearities, to obtain detailed three-dimensional compression-bending-bending strength-domains, which are compared to building-code prescriptions. Regulations are safety preserving, with an average difference of about 10%, and maximum difference for bending about the weak axis. Unlike in regulatory prescriptions, the experimental-numerical results show unsymmetrical behavior about the weak axis and nonlinear, convex bending-bending interaction.
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