CONGRATULATIONS to the University of Western Australia and on their work on the interactive design diagrams for bending load and axial load, recently published in the “Magazine of Concrete Research” of which Peter Airey was a co-contributor and extends our thanks to UWA for acknowledging our contribution to this important research. Airey Taylor Consulting will always support such joint programs in the future.
Excerpt – Bending moments can significantly reduce the ultimate capacity of compression members because non-uniform stress distributions result in higher peak stresses than pure compression loading. Eccentrically loaded columns are also susceptible to buckling since bending moments produced cause lateral deflection of compression members”
