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2022 Beedle Award Papers
 

• Unified Stability Design of Steel Structures Using Nonprismatic and Curved Members

• SIPC – A practical geometric nonlinear analysis method for the design of metal structures

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SS1 - Stability of Structural Members I
 

• Local Buckling Expressions for Lipped Channels

• Exploring machine learning for predicting elastic buckling and ultimate moments of steel decks in bending

• Cold-Formed Steel Corrugated Sheet Shear Wall with Special Energy Dissipation Bracing

• Buckling analysis of castellated steel beams using inverse eigenvalue beam element​

S1 -  Advances in Stability Analysis
 

• Constrained finite element analysis with displacement mapping: application to thin-walled members with holes

• Finite-element simulation of ductile crack propagation in steel structures

• Flexural Strength Prediction for Cold-Formed Steel Sections Unsymmetric About the Axis of Bending

• High-fidelity modeling of fracture-critical welded steel beam-to-column connections and their impact on earthquake stability of buildings

S2 - Stability of Plates and Shells

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• Simulation of Compressive Strength of Wall Studs Cold-Formed from Advanced High Strength Steel

• Sensitivity of post-buckling behaviour of single layer reticulated shells to loading and member imperfections

• Probing the buckling of axially compressed cylindrical shells: Stability landscape and nondestructive prediction

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S3 - Stability of Floor and Roofing Systems​

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• Verification and Validation of a Nonlinear Analysis Model for Ponding

• Impact of attachment pattern on the out-of-plane buckling capacity of light-gage corrugated steel decks

• Exploring the effects of clip flexibility on the behavior of standing seam diaphragms to brace cold-formed steel purlins

 

S4 - Stability of Beams and Girders I

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• Lateral-Distortional Buckling of Steel-Concrete Composite Beams: Kinematics, GBT Constrained Modes and Analytical Formulae

• Potential for Using Tubular Sections in Open Web Steel Joists

• Combining shell and GBT-based finite elements: large-displacement elastoplastic analysis

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S5 - Stability of Beams and Girders II

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• A Theoretical Study on Distortion Induced Fatigue of Slender Web Curved I-girders subjected to Pure Bending

• Buckling Behavior of Open Web Steel Joists and Joist Girders

 

S6 - Stability of Columns​

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• DSM-based Design Approach Against Flexural-Torsional and Global-Global Interactive Failures in CFS Columns

• Effect of unsupported chord slenderness on the buckling strength and stability response of CFS battened columns

• Lacing and unsupported chord stability characteristics in short CFS built-up columns : Tests, FEA and design aspects

• DSM-Based Design Proposal for CFS Columns Failing in Local-Distortional Interactive Modes

 

S7 - Stability of Columns and Compression Members

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• FEM-based design for global and local buckling interaction of welded box-section columns

• New developments in the design of bolted or welded single steel angle members in compression

• Design of Cold-formed Steel Built-up Nested Columns Subject to Flexural Buckling

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S8 - Stability of High Strength and Stainless Steels

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• Parametric Study on the Local Buckling of High Strength Steel Stub Columns under Axial Compression

• Stability Considerations of Unequal-Leg Angle Stainless Steel Columns

• Prediction of the load-displacement and local buckling behavior of hollow structural sections using Deep Neural Networks (DNN)

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S9 - Stability Under Extreme Loading

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• Strength evaluation of steel columns significantly deformed due to manmade or natural disasters

• Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis and Fragility Development of Electrical Transmission Towers under Hurricanes

• Elevated Temperature Effects on Local Buckling of Wide Flange Columns

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S11 - Stability of Frames and Frame Systems

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• The GCM-FE Method for the advanced analysis of steel frameworks and connections

• Analytical buckling solutions for three-member space frames subjected to torsional loading

• Three-dimensional frame buckling benchmark problems for direct analysis method in ANSI/AISC 360-16

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S12 - Stability of Frame Members

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• Optimization of cold-formed steel members considering reduced stiffness and strength due to cross-sectional instabilities

• Stiffness reduction factor requirements for the stability analysis of frames with rotary straightened W-shapes

• Finite element model based design rules for cold-formed steel storage-rack upright beam-columns

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S13 - Special Topics in Structural Stability

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• Is Your Non-Building Structure Suitably Braced: A Third Case Study in a Series

• Cold-formed steel strength predictions for torsion

• Flange local buckling strength of hot-rolled steel W-shape solar array piers partially braced by soil

• Global and local stability of reticulated domes based on the valency of structural elements