Abstract:Characteristic properties of the hinge zone, defined as the concentration area of local buckling, were carefully investigated in this paper, based on which the calculation equation for the mean curvature of the hinge of Hsections failed by local buckling was proposed. Because the length of hinge zone is dependent on sectional configuration as well as axial force ratio, the calculation method for the hinge zone length considering the effects of sectional configuration and loading conditions was put forward by induction. Thus, the relationship of crosssectional momentcurvature eliminating the effect of member length of Hsections according to arbitrary cantilever beamcolumns was obtained. It is noted that such momentcurvature can be applied to nonlinear analysis of members with different loading conditions, lengths and boundary conditions, hence the nonlinear analysis efficiency of steel structures can be improved with satisfactory accuracy for engineering study.