Structures built by cold-formed segments of primary members secondary members and roof panels provide a different
solution for a great variety of areas such as housing, storage, education, etc The design of cold-formed sections has obvious
complexity in view of the buckling of sections vis-Ă -vis stress in the compression element, especially in flexure. In this study,
effective section properties of the Z section are calculated for a wide range of configurations with different b/t ratios for flange
subjected to maximum allowable stress.
