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)