Buckling (of a strut or column)

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7-5-195

Horizontal deflection of a column or strut caused by an eccentric or excessive compressive vertical load.


Note: In French the phenomenon is called flambage and the resultant is called flambement.




Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)