> The reference I just checked (Beer & Johnson 1981), shows a force
> aligned with the centerline of a leg will produce no torsion.
> That's as much as they give for an angle. I'm sure someone has a
> better reference, but that tends to suggest your method makes sense.
Most structural design and strength of materials textbooks show how
to figure the shear center from the shear flow in each of the cross-
sectional elements. The shear center is the point about which the
individual shear flows exert no net moment.
Doubly symmetric sections have the shear center at the section
centroid. Singly symmetric sections have the shear center somewhere
along the axis of symmetry, but not at the section centroid. For
angles the shear flows are directed toward the heel of the angle, so
there's no net moment about the heel. That's where the shear center
is, so any load directed at the heel produces no torsion.
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