Curved aluminium extrusions are applied in a wide range of industrial applications. Because initially straight, an additional process is required to curve the product. Undesired wrinkling plate part at inner radius frequently observed during curving process. Wrinkling has already been extensively studied for rotary-draw bending This paper aims predicting conditions which hollow section can occu...

thermal resistance of the external walls of buildings is highly important for reducing and optimizing the energy consumption needed for heating and cooling the buildings. identifying and evaluation of the thermal performance of common external wall systems can be very effective in improving the heat resistance. the hollow clay- block system extremely are in use in the iran construction system, ...

This paper presents experimental research on structural behaviour of normal and recycled aggregate concrete filled steel tube (RACFT) columns externally strengthened with carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets and subjected to axial loading. A total of 22 specimens were tested to investigate the influence of the following variables: (1) tube configurations, circular or square, solid or h...

Simply supported steel beams with rectangular hollow section (RHS) are investigated, taking into account large twist and cross-sections distortions. A closed-form expression for the critical value of external couple inducing lateral torsional buckling is found; homotopy perturbation method (HPM) used to investigate post-buckling non-linear path. The linear paths given by HPM compared those of: ...