A Study on the Effect of Hollow Tubular Flange Sections on the Behavior of Cold-Formed Steel Built-Up Beams

Table 3

Comparison of results.

Specimen	Ultimate load (kN)			MEXP/MANSYS	MEXP/MDSM	MANSYS/MDSM	Failure mode
	MEXP	MANSYS	MDSM
200 USW	14.74	15.78	9.79	0.93	1.51	1.61	FLB + GB
250 USW	12.99	14.35	10.92	0.91	1.19	1.31	FLB + GB
300 USW	9.68	9.98	11.96	0.97	0.81	0.83	WLB + GB
200 SW	8.96	9.51	6.28	0.94	1.43	1.51	FLB + GB
250 SW	10.78	10.15	7.83	1.06	1.38	1.30	FLB + GB
300 SW	11.14	11.62	8.70	0.96	1.28	1.34	WLB + GB

FLB: flange local buckling; WLB: web local buckling; and GB: global buckling.