Column

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a rigid slender structural member design primarily to support compressive load applied at the member ends

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column

Front 2

an upright,relatively shaft or structure, usually of bricks or stone ,used as a building support or standing alone as a monument

Back 2

pillar

Front 3

a stiff vertical support, esp a wooden column in timber framing

Back 3

post

Front 4

the sudden lateral or torsional instability of a slender structural member induce by the action of a compressive loads .

Back 4

buckling

Front 5

can occur well before the yield stress of the material is reached

Back 5

buckling

Front 6

the axial load at which the column begins to deflect laterally and become unstable

Back 6

buckling loads

Front 7

the maximum axial load that can be theoretically be applied to a column without causing it to buckle, also called euter buckling load

Back 7

critical buckling load

Front 8

the critical point at which a column ,carrying its critical buckling load ,may either buckle or remain undeflected. the column is therefore in a state of neutral equilibrium

Back 8

bifurcation

Front 9

the critical buckling loads for a column divided by the area of it cross section

Back 9

critical buckling stress

Front 10

a thick column subject to failure by crushing rather than by buckling.

Back 10

short column

Front 11

a column having a mode of failure between that of a short column ,often partly inelastic by crushing and partly elastic by buckling

Back 11

intermediate

Front 12

a slender column subject to failure by buckling rather than by crushing

Back 12

long column

Front 13

a set of tensile and compressive stresses resulting from the super position of axial and bending stresses at a cross section of a structural member s,acting in the same direction and equal at any point to their algebraic sum

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combined stresses

Front 14

the central area of any horizontal section of a column or wall within which the resultant of all compressive loads must pass if only compressive stresses are to be presented in section , a compressive load applied beyond this area will cause tensile stresses to develop in the section ,also called kern area

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kern

Front 15

a point on either side of the centroidal axis of a horizontal column or wall section defining the limits of the kern

Back 15

kern point

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the bracing of a column or compression member to reduce its effective length. lateral bracing is most effective when the bracing pattern occurs in more than one plan

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lateral bracing

Front 17

the distance between the points at which a structural members is braced against buckling in a direction normal to its length

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unbraced length