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Cross Section Classification Handout

Eurocode 3 defines four classes of cross-sections for steel design based on their ability to develop plastic or yield stresses without local buckling. Class 1 sections can form a plastic hinge and achieve full plastic rotation. Class 2 sections can reach plastic moment resistance but have limited rotation. Class 3 sections can reach yield stresses in compression but local buckling prevents plastic moment. Class 4 sections experience local buckling before yield stresses are reached. The document also provides tables to determine a cross-section's class based on width-to-thickness ratios of the flange, web in bending, and web in compression.

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Cross Section Classification Handout

Eurocode 3 defines four classes of cross-sections for steel design based on their ability to develop plastic or yield stresses without local buckling. Class 1 sections can form a plastic hinge and achieve full plastic rotation. Class 2 sections can reach plastic moment resistance but have limited rotation. Class 3 sections can reach yield stresses in compression but local buckling prevents plastic moment. Class 4 sections experience local buckling before yield stresses are reached. The document also provides tables to determine a cross-section's class based on width-to-thickness ratios of the flange, web in bending, and web in compression.

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Steel Design to Eurocode 3

Local Buckling and Cross Section Classification


Eurocode 3 defines the classes in Clause 5.5.2:
Class 1 cross-sections are those which can form a plastic hinge with the rotation capacity
required from plastic analysis without reduction of the resistance.
Class 2 cross-sections are those which can develop their plastic moment resistance, but have
limited rotation capacity because of local buckling.
Class 3 cross-sections are those in which the stress in the extreme compression fibre of the
steel member assuming an elastic distribution of stresses can reach the yield strength, but
local buckling is liable to prevent development of the plastic moment resistance.
Class 4 cross-sections are those in which local buckling will occur before the attainment of
yield stress in one or more parts of the cross-section.

Width-to-Thickness Ratio

Cross-section Classification
Substitute the value of into the class limits in Table 5.2 to work out the class of the flange
and web
Flange outstand
limiting value, c/tf

Web in bending
limiting value, d/tw

Web in
compression
limiting value d/tw

Class 1

72

33

Class 2

10

83

38

Class 3

14

124

42

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