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Angle profiles belong to the most common steel profiles used in several types of civil engineering structures, such as in lattice towers. Although, in such towers, they are usually considered as axially loaded (truss) members, an additional bending moment develops due to the eccentricity between the point of load application and the gravity center of the profile. Therefore, this paper focuses on the buckling resistance of single-angle members subjected to combined compression and bending. The investigations have been performed through numerical parametrical studies and have been compared to different normative documents where interaction equations are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an exact solution for the boundary-value problem which describes the linear buckling of axially compressed circular cylindrical panels with stringers attached to the straight edges. The boundary conditions differ from the classical simply supported ones, often assumed for design purposes, in the sense that the torsion resisted by the stringers are also taken into account. The presence of the stringers makes the results reported herein of practical interest and valuable as benchmark data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]