Analysis and Design of Axially Loaded Cold Formed Steel Column

— Cold-formed steel members are either cold-rolled or brake-pressed into structural shapes. As a result, cold-formed steel open sections are usually singly-point- or non-symmetric. The most common types of singly-symmetric sections are channel and angle. Analysis and design of axially compressed cold formed steel column is going to be performed in this project, in which design based on Euro Codes Specification for the design of cold-formed steel structural members. A detailed literature survey was carried out in-order to know the behavior of CFS open section especially channel section under axial compression is studied. The ultimate strength and behaviour of the various ColdFormed Steel sections such as stiffened open section and unstiffened open section are tested under axial compression by experiment investigation and their results are compared with the numerical analysis by using finite element analysis software ANSYS