effective length

Isaac Kremer/ January 28, 2022/ / 0 comments

The distance between inflection points in the span of a fixed-end or continuous beam, equivalent in nature to the actual length of a simply supported beam. 2. The distance between inflection points in a column subject to buckling. The effective length of a column determines its critical buckling load. When this portion of a column buckles, the entire column fails. (Ching, 1995)

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