Lateral stabilization by steel sheeting of structural members

Although the European Recommendations for the Stressed Skin Design of Steel Structures treat in a quite complete way the collaboration of the sheeting with the whole structure, they do nevertheless not deal with the stabilization by sheeting of individual members (such as rafters or columns) of the framework. This problem is dealt with in the present paper: several formulae have been derived for the calculation of the interaction forces between stabilized members and their sheeting, according to the requirements of the EUROCODE 3.