Abstract
The focus of this paper is the design treatment of cold-formed sections in North American and Australian Standards; as usage of cold-formed steel structures are increasing in these regions.A comprehensive literature reviewthat relates to the experiments performed in this area of research.The literature provides valuable context to draw conclusions and determine the need for this specific research which are addressed as follow: Firstly, existing design standards for cold-formed steel do not include any inelastic reserve capacity for coldformed channel sections with edge stiffener which is unduly conservative. Secondly, the plastic design method is based on studies for hot-rolled steel and concluded that the plastic method in existing standards cannot provide an accurate result for cold-formed steel. Therefore, in this paper the behaviour and strength of the cold-formed channel sections in bending is simulated by using the ABAQUS program, and it was shown that the developed models are perfect for investigating the behaviour of the cold-formed plastic (compact) channel sections. © 2013 Taylor & Francis Group.
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