“…Columns and beams of fiber reinforced polymer composites can be used in a variety of structures, such as buildings, salt storage sheds, bridge superstructures, among others (Barbero and DeVivo, 1999). However, there are several problems related to its use that demands in-depth studies (Akbulut, Gundogdu and Sengül, 2010). Due to its importance, the buckling of columns of fiber-reinforced composite materials has been extensively studied (Barbero and Tomblin, 1994;Barbero, 2000;Puente, Insausti and Azkune, 2006;Kollár, 2002aKollár, , 2002bKollár, , 2003Kollár, , 2014Qiao and Shan, 2005;Cardoso, 2014, Cardoso, Harries and Batista, 2014, 2015.…”