State-of-art Review and Compilation of Studies on Perforated Thin-walled Structures

Use of thin-walled steel sections in structures represents a tread further in the exploitation of structural form from its early ponderousness to the present day's trend towards tenuity. In the past seventy years, extensive experimental and analytical research has been carried out to examine the behavior of thin-walled structures containing openings. The experimental results have not been fully utilized by other researchers. As part of this review, an endeavor is made to cluster the experimental and analytical results with particular importance on plates, beams and plate girders and compression members and cellular structures containing perforations as an elucidative database using a handy spreadsheet program written in Visual Basic.