CIMS2008 - Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures

Sydney, Australia
Monday 23 - Wednesday 25 June 2008

Last updated: Friday 20 June

  5th International Conference on Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures
CIMS2008
Sunday 22 - Wednesday 25 June 2008
Sunday 22 June 2008  
6.00 - 8.00pm Welcome Reception - Darlington Centre, the University of Sydney
Monday 23 June 2008  
7.30am Registration Opens
8.45 - 9.00am CIMS2008 Official Opening - Doric Room
Prof Marie Bashir, Governor of NSW, Chancellor of the University of Sydney
9.00 - 9.40am Keynote Presentation - Doric Room
Chair: Prof MA Bradford
GBT-Based Analysis of Thin-walled Steel Frames
D Camotim, C Basaglia  & N Silvestre
9.40 - 10.20am Morning Tea Break - Ionic Room
10.20am - 12.00pm Concurrent Sessions
Flexural Members #1 - Doric Room
Chair: Dr R Beale
Theoretical Developments - Tuscan Room
Chair: Dr S Adany
10.20am - 10.40am Strength of Flexural-Torsional Buckling with Web Deformation for H-shaped Compression Members with Continuously Eccentric Bracings
Y Kimura & A Amamoto
Thermo-elastic Instability Analysis of Imperfect Composite Plates
B Samsam Shariat
10.40am - 11.00am Plastic Capacity of Semi-compact Steel Sections
A Lechner, M Kettler, R Greiner, N Boissonnade, J-P Jaspart & K Weynand
A Combined Formulation of the Finite Volume Method and the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin Method Applied to Static and Modal Analysis
MR Moosavi & A Khelil
11.00am -11.20am Theoretical Investigation of Web Crippling Behaviour of Thin-walled Lipped Channel Beams
M MacDonald, MA Heiyantuduwa, M Kotelko & J Rhodes
Coupled Instability of Thin-walled Columns Based on Multi-Scale Continuum Mechanics
K Takahashi, T Mizuuchi, T Hirayama, M Oonuki & Y Nakade
11.20am -11.40am An Analytical Model to Study Flange Curling in Wide Flange Panels
N Silvestre
A Neural Network Evaluation of the Ultimate Resistance of Plate Girders Subjected to Patch Loading
F Shahabian, H Rajabi Mashhadi, H Molla-Ahmadian & SM Ahmadian
11.40am - 12.00pm Flattening and Buckling of Thin Angle-Section Beams
H Kuwamura
Multicriteria Optimisation of Cold-formed Thin-walled Beams under Compression Axial Load
M Ostwald & M Rodak
12.00 - 1.00pm Lunch Break - Ionic Room
1.00 - 1.40pm Keynote Presentation - Doric Room
Chair: Prof B Uy
Innovation in Composite Construction - Towards the Extreme of High Strength and Lightweight
JYR Liew, KS Chia, KMA Sohel & DX Xiong
1.40 - 3.00pm Concurrent Sessions
Compression Members #1 - Doric Room
Chair: Dr M Casafont
Stainless Steel Structures - Tuscan Room
Chair: Prof H Kuwamura
1.40pm -2.00pm Coupled Instability of Thin Walled Structures with Slotted Connections
K Rzeszut & A Garstecki
Buckling of Tubular Stainless Steel Columns
L Gardner, M Theofanous & T Chan
2.00pm - 2.20pm Structural Behavior of Cold-Formed Steel Wall Studs with Sheathing under Axial Loads
CL Pan, SH Lin & JY Lin
Compression Tests and Numerical Simulations of Thin-walled Stainless Lipped Channel Columns
B Rossi, J Rondal & H Degee
2.20pm - 2.40pm Bifurcation Phenomena of Buckling-Restrained Braces (BRB)
K Yoshida & Y Kuriyama
Web Crippling of Cold-formed Stainless Steel Tubular Sections
F Zhou & B Young
2.40pm - 3.00pm Plastic Mechanism Database for Thin-walled Cold-formed Steel Members in Compression and Bending
Viorel Ungureanu, Maria Kotelko, Radoslaw Mania, Dan Dubina
Experimental Investigation of the Interaction of Local and Overall Buckling of Stainless Steel I-columns
J Becque & KJR Rasmussen
Numerical Investigation of the Interaction of Local and Overall Buckling of Stainless Steel I-columns
J Becque & KJR Rasmussen
3.00 - 3.30pm Afternoon Tea Break - Ionic Room
3.30 - 5.50pm Concurrent Sessions
Generalised Beam Theory and Finite Strip Method - Doric Room
Chair: Prof A Luongo
Plate Girders - Tuscan Room
Chair: Prof M Kotelko
3.30pm - 3.50pm GBT-Based Post-Buckling Analysis of Thin-walled Lipped I-section Steel Columns
C Basaglia, D Camotim & N Silvestre
Stability Analysis of the Stiffened Plates of a New Danube Arch Bridge
LG Vigh & L Dunai
3.50pm - 4.10pm Buckling Mode Identification of Thin-Walled Members: A Comparison Between the cFSM and GBT Approaches
S Adany, N Silvestre, BW Schafer & D Camotim
The Coupled Effect of (i) Repeated Plate Buckling and (ii) Cumulative Damage - Two Simple Methods for User-friendly Design
M Skaloud & M Zoenerova
4.10pm - 4.30pm GBT Stability Analysis of Thin-walled Cold-formed Slender Hollow-flange Steel Beams
PD Simao & LS Silva
The Patch Loading Resistance of Girders with Corrugated Webs
U Kuhlmann, B Braun & B Kovesdi
4.30pm - 4.50pm Identification of FEM Buckling Modes of Thin-walled Columns by using cFSM Base Functions
S Adany, AL Joo & BW Schafer
Elastic Buckling Strength of Rectangular Corrugated Plates under Shear Loading
K Ikarashi, M Fujisawa & LH Feng
4.50pm - 5.10pm Combined GBT-FEM Procedure for the Deflection of Pure Distortional Buckling Loads
M Casafont, F Marimon & MM Pastor
Numerical Investigations of Web Panels Stiffened by One or Two Trapezoidal Stiffeners
H Degee, N Boissonnade & R Maquoi
5.10pm - 5.30pm On the Local and Global Buckling Behaviour of Angle, T-Section and Cruciform Thin-walled Columns and Beams
PB Dinis, N Silvestre & D Camotim
Ultimate Resistance of Plate Girders with the Optimum Location  of  Longitudinal Stiffeners under Patch Loading
F Shahabian & M Shahasavandi
5.30pm - 5.50pm Elastic Buckling Anlysis Of Perforated Thin-Walled Structures By The Isoparametric Spline Finite Strip Method
G Eccher, K Rasmussen, R Zandonini
Coupled Buckling Strength of H-shaped Steel Beams under Bending-Shear
W Tao & K Ikarashi
Tuesday 24 June 2008  
8.00am Registration Opens
9.00 - 9.40am Keynote Presentation - Doric Room
Chair: Dr L Gardner
A Unified Perturbation Approach to Static/Dynamic Coupled Instabilities of Nonlinear Structures
A Luongo
9.40 - 10.20am Morning Tea Break - Ionic Room
10.20am - 12.00pm Concurrent Sessions
Flexural Members #2 - Advanced Sections - Doric Room
Chair: Prof D Ungermann
Distortional Buckling - Tuscan Room
Chair: Prof J Jonsson
10.20am - 10.40am Coupled Instabilities of Cold-formed Steel Members in Minor Axis Bending
B Brune & D Ungermann
Local-Plate/Distortional Mode Interaction in Cold-Formed Steel Lipped Channel Beams
PB Dinis & D Camotim
10.40am - 11.00am Numerical Modeling and Design of the New Built-Up LiteSteel Beams
S Jeyaragan & M Mahendran
Interaction of Local and Distortional Buckling with Lateral Torsional Buckling of Cold-formed Steel Beams
P Nandini & V Kalyanaraman
11.00am - 11.20am Elastic Buckling and Effective Shaping of Selected Cross-sections of Flanges of Thin-walled Channel Beams
K Magnuchki & P Paczos
Distortional Buckling Problems of Cold-formed Sigma Sections
L-Y Li & J-K Chen
11.20am -11.40am Experimental Investigation of Thin-walled Centrifugal Concrete-filled Steel Tubes under Torsion
J Fu, J Chen & WL Jin
DSM Design of Simply Supported Rack-Section Columns Against Local/ Distortional Interactive Buckling
N Silvestre, PB Dinis & D Camotim
11.40am - 12.00pm Efficient Determination of Cross Sectional Load Carrying Capacity of Class-4 Members
D Ungermann & JF Collard
Restrained Distortional Buckling of the Steel Joist of a Composite Steel-Concrete Beam Subjected to Fire
TK Luu & MA Bradford
12.00 - 1.00pm Lunch Break - Ionic Room
1.00 - 1.40pm Keynote Presentation - Doric Room
Chair: Prof J Rondal
Computational Modeling of Cold-formed Steel
BW Schafer
1.40 - 3.00pm Concurrent Sessions
Shells - Doric Room
Chair: Prof Y Goto
Aluminium Structures & Shearwalls- Tuscan Room
Chair: Prof L Dunai
1.40pm -2.00pm Local and Global Buckling of Cylindrical Steel Shells Subject to Uniform Circumferential Compression and Wind Load
M Gettel & W Schneider
Behaviour and Design of Aluminium Alloy Structural Members
J-H Zhu & B Young
2.00pm - 2.20pm Elasto-plastic Stability of Single-layer Reticular Shells
F Fan, ZG Cao & SZ Shen
The EC9 Approach to Aluminium Shell Buckling
FM Mazzolani & A Mandara
2.20pm - 2.40pm Elasto-plastic Instability of Single-layer Reticulated Shells under Dynamic Actions
Z Xudong, F Fan & S Shen
Cross-sectional Instabilities of Aluminium Structural Elements
NA Kutanova, F Soetens & HH Snijder
2.40pm - 3.00pm Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Elastic Buckling of Open Circular Cylindrical Shells
S Joniak, K Magnucki & W Szyc
A Unique Buckling Mode of Cold-Formed Steel Framed Shear Wall with Sheet Steel Sheathing
C Yu
3.00 - 3.30pm Afternoon Tea Break  - Ionic Room
3.30 - 5.50pm Concurrent Sessions
Frames and Systems - Doric Room
Chair: Prof F Fan
Compression Members #2 - Box and Rack Sections  - Tuscan Room
Chair: Prof C-L Pan
3.30pm - 3.50pm Behaviour of Multi-Span Purlins of Bolted Lapped Cold-Formed Z Sections
D Dubina & V Ungureanu
Effects of Stiffeners on Stability and Ductility of Stiffened Thin-walled Steel Columns with Rectangular Cross-section under Bi-directional Loading
M Obata, H Suzuki & Y Goto
3.50pm - 4.10pm Interaction Phenomena of Cold-formed Truss Members and Joints
J Gabor & L Dunai
Stability of Thin-Walled Stiffened Square Steel Columns under Bi-Directional Seismic Excitations
Y Goto, R Koyama & M Obata
4.10pm - 4.30pm Dynamic Analysis of Rack Structures
A Ng, R Beale & M Godley
Coupled Instabilities for Square Concrete Filled Steel Columns
B Uy & M Mursi
4.30pm - 4.50pm Codified Design of Lateral-torsional Buckling of Beams by Using Elastic Critical Moment
YP Liu, B Li & SL Chan
Effects of Externally Bonded CFRP on the Local Buckling and Axial Capacity of Steel SHS
MR Bambach, HH Jama & M Elchalakani
4.50pm - 5.10pm Three Dimensional Second-order Analysis of Frame Systems
JE Laier
On the Interaction of Global and Local Buckling of Square Hollow Sections in Fire
M Knobloch, M Fontana & A Frangi
5.10pm - 5.30pm   Structural Capacity of Light Gauge Steel Storage Rack Uprights
D Koen & KJR Rasmussen
     
Wednesday 25 June 2008 Gregory J Hancock Symposium
8.00am Registration Opens
8.45 - 9.00am Welcome - Gregory J Hancock Symposium
9.00 - 10.15am Session 1 - Doric Room Chair: M Mahendran
9.00am - 9.25am Distortional Buckling Before and After Greg Hancock
D Camotim & N Silvestre
9.25am - 9.50am The Sixth Equation that Changed  the World
GJ Hancock
9.50am - 10.15am Compression Tests for the High Strength Cold-Formed Steel Columns Undergoing Interaction between Local and Distortional Buckling
YB Kwon, BS Kim & GJ Hancock
10.15 - 10.45pm Morning Tea Break - Ionic Room
10.45am - 12.25pm  Session 2 - Doric Room Chair: Prof Kalyanaraman
10.45am - 11.10am Behaviour of Single Angle Steel Beams
NS Trahair
11.10am - 11.35am On Using Legendre Polynomials and Amended Spline Transformations in the SFSM for Plate Buckling Analysis
MA Bradford & Z Vrcelj
11.35am - 1200pm The Direct Strength Method for Stainless Steel Compression Members
J Becque, M Lecce & KJR Rasmussen
12.00pm - 12.25pm A General Prediction Method for Residual Stresses and Strains in Cold-formed Steel Members
C Moen & BW Schafer
12.25 - 1.25pm Lunch Break - Ionic Room
1.25 - 3.15pm Session 3 - Doric Room Chair Person Dr Ben Young
1.25pm - 1.50pm North American Cold-formed Steel Design Standards
RA LaBoube, H Chen & JW Larson
1.50pm - 2.15pm Ultimate Flexural Strength of Aluminium Members
Y Kim & T Pekoz
2.15pm - 2.40pm FRP Strengthening of Thin-walled Structures
X-L Zhao
2.40pm - 3.05pm The Evolution of Hollow Flange Sections: From Concept to Practice
TJ Wilkinson & R Dempsey
3.15 - 3.45pm Afternoon Tea Break - Ionic Room
3.45 - 5.25pm Session 4 - Doric Room Chair: Prof M Bambach
3.45pm - 4.10pm Performance of Base-plate Connections of Steel Storage Pallet Racks
N Baldassino, A Scandola & R Zandonini
4.10pm - 4.35pm Inelastic Performance of Weld-Connected Cold-Formed Steel Strap Braced Walls
G Comeau, K Velchev, N Balh & CA Rogers
4.35pm - 5.00pm Structural Engineering Solutions for Tall Buildings in Australia
K Kayvani
5.00pm - 5.25pm Interactive Buckling and Post-buckling Behaviour of Intermediately Stiffened Flanges in Compression
PA Voutay & JM Davies
5.25 - 5.30pm Official Conference Close