… in open thin-walled cross-sections

… in open thin-walled cross-sections#

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Fig. 50 Figure 6.29 Hartsuijker and Welleman (2007)#

For open thin-walled cross sections the shear stress is defined by:

\[\tau = \frac{M_te_m}{\frac{1}{2}I_t}, \quad I_t=\sum_{i}\frac{1}{3}h_i t_i^3\]

This is treated in chapter 6.3.2 and 6.3.3 of the book Engineering Mechanics Volume 2 (Hartsuijker and Welleman, 2007).