Compact vs Slender Steel Sections

Most standard steel structural shapes these days are designed to prevent local buckling, as it’s a tricky little check that’s easy to miss, and these shapes are known as compact. Compact shapes don’t need to be checked for local buckling effects. But several legacy shapes do still exist in the steel manual that are either noncompact or slender, and steel designers specifying their own built-up beams can easily stumble into troubled waters as well. How can you tell if a steel shape is compact, and what happens if they aren’t? Check out the companion article to this video on my website at https://structed.org/compact-vs-slend... for more info on this topic, or poke around the rest of the site for other topics! For deals on select PPI2Pass products (and to help support this channel), click the following link: https://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/...