Unified design equations for web crippling failure of cold-formed ferritic stainless steel unlipped channel-sections with web holes

This paper addresses the design of cold-formed ferritic stainless steel unlipped channel-sections with offset web holes and fastened flanges subject to web crippling under one-flange load scenarios. The results of a total of 18 new experimental tests, not reported previously, are presented; these were conducted on ferritic 1.4016 grade unlipped channel-sections under both interior- and end-one-flange loadings. The results are used to validate a...