Have dealt, thus far, with perfect columns, loading eccentricities, and beam-columns. There are, however, many more issues in buckling/(static) structural instability, most of which will try to touch on a) Buckling versus Fracture Have looked at columns that are long enough such that they buckle
Earlier looked at Simple Beam Theory in which one considers a beam in the x-z plane with the beam along the x-direction and the load in the z-direction Figure 14.1 Representation of Simple Beam Now look at a more general case Loading can be in any direction
We have thus far looked at In-plane loads torsional loads In addition, structures can carry loads by bending. The 2-D case is a plate, the simple 1-d case is a beam. Let's first review what you learned in Unified as Simple Beam Theory