👉What are steel tension members?

🏷Explanation: Steel tension members are those structural elements that are subjected to direct axial tensile loads, which tend to elongate the members.

⏺A member in pure tension can be stressed up to and beyond the yield limit and does not buckle locally or overall. What's the difference between tension and compression?

✅Main Difference – Tension vs. Compression

⏺Tension and compression refer to forces that attempt to deform an object.

🎲The main difference between tension and compression is that tension refers to forces that attempt to elongate a body, whereas compression refers to forces that attempt to shorten the body.

✅What is net section rupture?
Net Section Rupture

⏺Deformations continue with increasing load until finally rupture (tension failure) of the member occurs when the entire net cross section of the member reaches the ultimate stress.

The design strength due to net section rupture for plates is given by.

🚧What is tensile rupture?

✅Tensile rupture is a strength based limit state similar to the tensile yielding limit state that we just considered.

⏺The concern at these locations is actual rupture so the applied forces are compared against the rupture strength in the region of reduced effective section.

✅What is slenderness ratio of a compression member?

⏺Explanation: The tendency of member to buckle is usually measured by its slenderness ratio. Slenderness ratio of member is ratio of effective length to appropriate radius of gyration (λ = kL/r)

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