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Civil Engineering QUESTION #6620
Question 1
For a 'Built-up' steel member, the individual components must be connected at intervals such that the slenderness ratio of any individual component does not exceed the:
  • Slenderness ratio of the whole member✔️
  • Limit of 200 for tension members
  • Limit of 40 for compression members
  • Yield stress of the material
Correct Answer Explanation
To ensure the built-up member acts as a single unit, the slenderness of individual components between connectors ($l/r_i$) must be less than or equal to the overall slenderness ($KL/r$) of the member.