I'm trying to design a flange for a wind turbine tower. I wanted to check whether the flange would fail. but I didn't know how to calculate the Plastic limiting moment of tubular section MPL,3.
You have to perform a plastic analysis of the section. First to determine the yield moment of the section by using yield stress of the material and the section properties and then the plastic moment of the section using plastic section modulus and the yield stress of the material.