A mode of structural failure where a slender member, such as a column or thin-walled tube, deflects laterally when subjected to axial compression. It occurs before the material itself reaches its compressive yield strength. The critical load required to cause this instability depends heavily on the geometry and end supports of the member.
Heard on the job
If you try to press that bearing in without a guide, the pushrod will buckle under the force.
Also heard as
- buckling