Steel

Lateral-torsional buckling (LTB)λ̄LT

A failure mode where a slender beam loaded in bending rotates and translates sideways before reaching its in-plane capacity.

In context

LTB capacity drops as the unbraced length increases. Codes use a slenderness parameter λ̄_LT to compute a reduction factor χ_LT applied to the plastic moment capacity.

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Where lateral-torsional buckling (ltb) is applied in the design tools.

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