channel design

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channel design
if your using a channel to support a load how do you check the channel against buckling/bearing of the web?
same as an i-beam.
cheers, have already realised. just assumed it was more complicated!!!!!! thanks.
so channels and hss are the same as i-beams, but not angles, correct?
the spread of the load in a hss is a little different due to the external curvature. an angle doesnt have a bottom flange, so is completely different.
csd:
not to be cute, but if the angle is upside down, it has a bottom flange.  this happens all the time in marine construction where angles are used, upside down as it were, to stiffen the underside of deck plating.  
i know...picky, picky, picky.
mike mccann
mmc engineering