Ultimate loads of steel channel sections in compression and bending

Ultimate loads of steel channel sections in compression and bending. Especially for members susceptible to global buckling or coupled instabilities the design rules in the relevant codes DIN 18800 and Eurocode 3 have been developed for and verified by research on I-shaped or hollow sections. For deviant shapes, particularly the regarded channel sections, a transfer or verification of these design concepts does not exist. A comprehensive design method is presented, allowing to describe the load-carrying behavior of channel-shaped members without longitudinal stiffeners in compression and/or bending realistically. Special attention has been paid to the regards of stability problems, i.e. local and global buckling as well as a combination of both, the so-called coupled instability.