Buckling Temperature and Buckling Stress of a Steel Member with Lateral Bracing Caused by a Thermal Load

摘要

This paper deals with the buckling of a slender steel member with lateral bracing. The buckling phenomenon is buckling by a thermal load, not by an external force. The buckling quantities of interest are the buckling temperature and the buckling stress. A theoretical method to obtain the relations between these quantities and the bracing rigidity is shown in this paper.