Dynamic Buckling
Dynamic Buckling
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I've got a project where I have to get reacquainted with the concept of dynamic buckling (primarily from axial loads due to a sudden load). Can anyone recommend a resource where I can quickly check sections I have for this? Most of the resources I have (and have found) are really not that useable. Thanks in advance.






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What type of member? Column buckling? Beam buckling? Local effects like web or flange buckling? Typically when we deal with dynamic loads, we treat them as equivalent static loads and apply an impact factor. Is this what you are doing or are you doing some fancy analysis or FEA?
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Correct. And we are talking from a short (pulse) load.
Yes, column buckling (as I said).
You can typically get a higher dynamic buckling value than static (that is (of course) if the duration is right and localized effects (at the point of application) do not control).
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The latter.
That's my preference as well......but I've got a client who is questioning me on this.
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I hear what you are saying......and like I said: it’s my preference too......but (like I've said) I've been called on the carpet on this, so I'm trying to get an exact idea. The values can greatly exceed the elastic values (under the right conditions).
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I'm afraid that I'm unable to recommend such a resource. As MotorCity intimated, it's a very complex phenomenon and, to my knowledge, can't be boiled down to something even as simple as a monograph without making some significant/neutering simplifications. You're quite right though, dynamic buckling capacity can be greatly in excess of static values.
For those that may be interested, this is an excellent primer on the subject: Little Book of Dynamic Buckling. This is old but also good: Link
Based on the discussion so far, I fear that some are confusing dynamic load impact factors with dynamic buckling. The latter is much, much more complex. Dynamic buckling is influenced by not just imperfections and material characteristics but also by the shape and duration of the applied impulse (rectangular, triangular etc). It's well above my level of theoretical understanding really.
I like to debate structural engineering theory -- a lot. If I challenge you on something, know that I'm doing so because I respect your opinion enough to either change it or adopt it.
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Thanks for the links KootK.
Quite true. I'm finding that duration, slenderness, initial imperfections, and so forth are controlling criteria. (It's as complicated as i remember it!)
ASCE's Journal library has been making some money off of me today.
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I like to debate structural engineering theory -- a lot. If I challenge you on something, know that I'm doing so because I respect your opinion enough to either change it or adopt it.
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Funny you should mention this. For obvious reasons, folks associate me with my kick-ass digital library. But my physical library is even better in my opinion. Better, even, than any SE firm library that I've seen. And I've currently got two problems in need of solving:
1) When I die/retire, the books need a home. There's some truly collectible stuff in there. I've got a few former proteges that have expressed interest but I'm not sure than any quite reflect my personal level of commitment/insanity.
2) I've got some neat stuff that I plan to dump in the near term because I now have PDF versions. The goal is to lighten my physical load without losing information. That said, I'm loath to actually throw these books away. I would like to find them a suitable home. Being in Canada, shipping to a US applicant is a bit of a problem (serious weight).
On more than one occasion, I've been in a used book store found a heap of good structural books, many bearing the same stamp/signature. It's clear, in those cases, that a good structural engineer bit the dust and the boobs managing his or her estate didn't know what to do with the stash. $1 here, $2 there. I don't want that to happen to me or my babies.
I like to debate structural engineering theory -- a lot. If I challenge you on something, know that I'm doing so because I respect your opinion enough to either change it or adopt it.
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I am up for a road trip to Canada to adopt your children...err books. My wife is an English teacher, and I hope to build her a grand library in our next house. Naturally, as an engineer, I no English good, so my collection of books is sad. So, when that time comes, I would love to see a slew of old engineering books being kept safe in a book shelf made of rich mahogany.
Our local book exchange (free books!) recently burned down, and it pains me to think there were likely some good engineering texts in there somewhere.
Sorry for the off topic post.
"It is imperative Cunth doesn't get his hands on those codes."
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I like to debate structural engineering theory -- a lot. If I challenge you on something, know that I'm doing so because I respect your opinion enough to either change it or adopt it.
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P = EI*n^2*pi^2/L^2 + (rho*A*pi^2*x^2/(8*delta(t)^2))*sin(pi*t/delta(t))
rho = density of material
A = cross-sectional area
delta(t) = duration of impulse
I didn't check my work thoroughly, so beware, but I am pretty confident enough of it is right to understand that shorter durations increase allowable loads.
As you can see the second term does add to critical buckling load, P, especially as duration gets shorter due to the delta(t)^2 term in the denominator. So as the impulse load occurs the acceleration load the beam sees changes the maximum buckling load, the shorter the duration the higher the load capacity. This is all theoretical however. I would probably just use the static case unless for some reason you feel this causes a significant amount of over design.
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Gravityandinertia. Love your handle, and would also love a look at your first-principles musings.
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This spreadsheet is, at best, highly preliminary. It must not be used on any real project. I am putting it up on Eng-Tips at this stage in the hope that some members of the EngTipsBrainsTrust (you know who you are and the rest of us know who you are) will take a critical look at it. I would greatly appreciate their views on any aspect of it, including the validity of the assumptions, whether the assumptions are likely to be conservative or unconservative, and any implicit assumptions I have overlooked.
Once I have received some ETBT feedback I will decide whether it would be worthwhile taking the exercise further.
Thanks in advance.
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"From a study of the sample problems of stiffened panels and I-section
column, the imperfection-sensitivity and the collapse strength are seen
to be governed by two parameters, i.e., slenderness (B/t or ds/t) of the
stiffening elements and the ratio of Euler to local critical stresses. Under
conditions of the sudden application of load, the load carrying capacity
of the structure is diminished by about 8% and possibly more."
--'COLUMNS: STATIC AND DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE BUCKLING', J. Eng. Mech., 1984, 110(1): 49-65
I'm not sure from seeing your spreadsheet if that is taken into account or not so I thought I'd mention it.
I'm working with the aforementioned paper (and others) to try to get something useable. Will advise.
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I'm a bit swamped at work at the moment and my work would need to be organized a bit better for someone to follow along, I'm hoping maybe I'll have sometime to do that this weekend and start a dialog with the work that I've done and what you've done.
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It takes a look at dynamic buckling (vs. dynamic plastic yielding) for fluid-solid "slammed" columns. The difference between fluid-solid & (direct) solid-solid impact being duration of the event. It classifies fluid-solid impact as a "moderate" event in terms of impact time (i.e. being from 0.015 to 0.022 seconds in their tests).
In any case, they tested a number of square steel "columns" that were roughly about 0.5" x 0.3" (that varied) and about 17 inches long. They determined a "critical" impulse for both the onset of plastic yielding and dynamic buckling.
In cases where the slenderness ratio was less than about 135, the dynamic buckling impulse value was greater than the value needed for the onset of plastic yielding (as you would expect).
With just impulse values.....I needed to back out of this thing with real numbers. With one specimen (i.e. 14.52mm x 12.26 mm x 450 mm), I came out with their dynamic buckling value at 103 ksi. (They give: Fy= 56 ksi & Fult= 82 ksi in the intro.) The allowable static (buckling value I came out with was 9.11 ksi (using Table C-50 in the green book (ASD 9th)). So that's an increase over the static buckling strength by a factor of about 11. (However the onset of plastic yielding happens at 93 ksi.) This is of course by my calculations and assuming a impact time of 0.015 s.
Something else interesting: they confirmed a linear relationship between impact duration and dynamic buckling value (the shorter the duration, the higher the value).
Of course, testing these sorts of sections does not account for local slenderness issues with I-sections and the like.......but I thought I'd post.
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As well as fixing that error, I am tarting the whole thing up. When this is done I will post the result to my website.
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Something I would like to add to my last post in this thread (that I forgot to mention before): The Dynamic buckling value I came out with (i.e. from my calculations on that Journal article) compares favorably with the paper Mr. Kootk was kind enough to provide (i.e. 'Dynamic Buckling Estimates', AIAA, 1966, see Figures 5&6). This is approximating the impact load as a rectangular load.
So at the very least we (may) have an idea as to the upper bound (limit) to the problem.
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