1Post Graduate Scholar, Department of Civil Engineering, PRIST UNIVERSITY, Thanjavur, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, PRIST UNIVERSITY, Trichy-Thanjavur Highway, Vallam, Thanjavur, India
Online published on 21 November, 2017.
Cold formed steel structures are structural products that are made by forming plane sheets of steel at an ambient temperature into different shapes that can be used to convince structural and functional requirements. Therefore, the understanding of cold formed steel performance becomes an important issue to be studied. The aim of this paper is to study of the behavior of cold formed light gauge steel beams under cyclic loading. The effect of the cold formed beams with and without welding is tested for cyclic load and compared with its behavior under static loading. Totally four cold formed specimens are tested and its behavior are experimented and presented. Specimens are tested for cyclic loading and static loading. Deflections are measured. Loaddeflection curves are plotted. Ultimate load carrying capacity, energy absorption capacity, ductility parameter and stiffness parameter are determined. The theoretical values are obtained by analyzing as per IS: 811–1987 and compared with the experimental results. Experimental results are compared with ANSYS Software results.
Cold formed light gauge steel, welding, ANSYS
