Plasticity Correction - Inelastic Buckling

[Wingsmith]

How realistic are current methods for determining the plasticity correction factors?

A useful document is attached for plate buckling under uniaxial compression...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470749784.app2/pdf

 

[SWComposites]

why do you ask? if you have some doubts then run some tests of representative structure and correlate the results to the analytical predictions.

SW