ABSTRACT
The stability of a building can, and should, be assessed by looking at the stability of its individual elements as well as examining its stability as a whole. National codes have detailed instructions for the first case but the buckling analysis of whole structures is not so well regulated and therefore this chapter intends to address the second case. The designer basically has two possibilities to tackle whole building behaviour in either using finite element packages or relying on analytical methods. The analytical approach is used here.
