Tests on cold-formed and welded stainless steel members

摘要

The design of stainless steel members is frequently based on the rules published for carbon steel, although stainless steel exhibits fundamentaly different material stress-strain behaviour. An extensive test series including tests on sheetings, Z-sections restrained by sheeting, welded I-sections and circular hollows sections was carried out. The tests comprised bending tests, web crippling tests, concentric and eccentric axial compression tests, stub column tests and material tests. This paper presents the content of the test series and the methodology of the testing procedures used in the experimental investigations.