32 Results Found

Thin plates are widely used in various engineering applications. In some cases, these structural components may buckle due to compressive loads, which can be aggravated by lateral loads. Several authors have studied the elastoplastic buckling behavio...

The size of ships has increased considerably in recent decades. This growth impacts the stress magnitude in the bottom hull plates, which constantly suffer from biaxial compression and lateral water pressure, potentially leading to buckling. Adding s...

Thin plates are commonly used in mechanical structures such as ship hulls, offshore platforms, aircraft, automobiles, and bridges. When subjected to in-plane compressive loads, these structures may experience buckling. In some applications, perforati...

Widely employed in diverse engineering applications, stiffened steel plates are often subjected to biaxial compressive loads. Under these conditions, buckling may occur, initially within the elastic range but potentially progressing into the elasto-p...

Usually, the design of composite structures is limited to the linear elastic analysis only. The experimental results discussed in the paper demonstrate the physical non-linear behaviour both for unidirectional and woven roving composites. It is mainl...

In thin notched sheets under tensile loading, wrinkling appears on the sheet surface, specifically around the cracked area. This is due to local buckling and compression stresses near the crack surfaces. This study aims to numerically study the buckl...

Stiffened steel corrugated shear walls (SSCSWs) have achieved extensive applications in building structures and serve as efficient lateral force-resisting members. Single-side-stiffened steel corrugated shear walls (SS-SCSWs) are more flexible in ter...

To enhance the theoretical basis for the half-wavelength evaluation of high-order local buckling of section steel used as inner core of buckling-restrained brace, this paper conducts theoretical and numerical studies on the local buckling development...

The curved plate has been extensively used as a structural member in many industrial fields, especially the shipbuilding industry. The present study investigated the ultimate strength and collapse behavior of the simply supported curved plate under a...

In this study, a theoretical investigation is conducted on the local buckling resistance of aluminium Z-sections subjected to uniform compression. A method is developed based on the J2 deformation theory of plasticity (DTP) to calculate the critical...

One of the most important requirements for a well-designed buckling restrained brace (BRB) under severe earthquake loading is to ensure its stability until the brace achieves sufficient elasto-plastic deformation. This study presents the finite eleme...

The compressive behaviour of column members can be considerably affected by local buckling, material yielding and local end conditions. In this paper, the effects of the loading conditions at the ends of plain channel section columns subjected to uni...

This study investigates the elastoplastic stable bearing capacity of prestressed columns. The end restraint of the novel dual-steering plate brace prestressed column is enhanced, augmenting the efficiency of utilizing steel material. The elastoplasti...

This study aimed to investigate the behavioral characteristics of the lateral deflection of a simply supported perforated steel plate subjected to axial compression. Investigating the lateral deflection of the perforated plate is of great significanc...

Greenhouses had to be designed to sustain permanent maintenance and crop loads as well as the site-specific climatic conditions, with wind being the most damaging. However, both the structure and foundation are regularly empirically calculated, which...

This paper presents numerical investigations of the shear performance of vertically corrugated steel plate shear walls (CvSPSWs) with inelastic buckling of infilled plates under lateral loads. A numerical model was developed and verified by an experi...

Finite element (FE) simulation with inherent deformation is an ideal and practical computational approach for predicting welding stress and distortion in the production of complex aluminum alloy structures. In this study, based on the thermal elasto-...

The purpose of the work was to propose analytical model considering double confinements (provided by both transverse reinforcements and a wide flange steel section), which was verified by the nonlinear finite element analysis considering concrete-dam...

The reconstruction of traffic accidents has grown as an interdisciplinary field, encompassing bodies of research from automotive engineering, traffic and transport engineering, biomechanics, and forensic sciences. In this work, a method is proposed b...

Welding deformation occurs due to non-uniform thermal expansion, thermal contraction, restraint, and phase transformation in a metal by a local welding heat source. This causes problems such as low buckling strength and the reduced workability of the...

Composite action between the components of the concrete-filled steel tube (CFT) is complex and it is difficult to accurately obtain the experimental relationship between the steel tube and the core concrete of CFT columns. The triaxially stressed cor...

The technological process of forming the double-corrugated structures of the K-span system causes deep transverse embossing on the surface of the profiles. Such profile geometry makes it difficult to apply classical theories related to plastic failur...

Predicting the instability trajectory of an obliquely loaded pipeline on the seabed is vital for the global buckling assessment. To numerically investigate the obliquely loaded pipe–soil interactions, a plane strain elastoplastic finite element...

The in-plane elastoplastic failure mechanism of plate-tube-connected steel circular arches with inverted triangular cross sections is investigated in this study by using theoretical derivation and numerical simulation. First, the in-plane elastic buc...

To explore the application feasibility of high-strength steel in skeleton columns of precipitator casing structures, the bearing behavior of axially compressed H-section high-strength steel columns was investigated by the nonlinear finite element met...

Many studies on structural topology optimization of steel plate shear walls have been conducted. However, research on topology optimization using the bidirectional evolutionary structural optimization method is limited. Accordingly, this study optimi...

In the present work attention is focused on the friction-yielding damper CAR1 (first prototype of Control-Absorb-Retain damper), which belongs to passive energy dissipation systems. This damper consists of very simple materials; it does not need to b...

Ultrathin molecular films deposited on a substrate are ubiquitously used in electronics, photonics, and additive manufacturing methods. The nanoscale surface instability of these systems under uniaxial compression is investigated here by molecular dy...

To date, scholars’ research on the stability behavior of the arch structure mainly focuses on solid–web section arches, steel tubular truss arches and concrete-filled steel tubular arches, but the stability behavior of the novel spatial g...

Corrugated steel plate shear walls (CSPSWs) have been widely utilized as lateral-resistant and energy-dissipating components in multistory and high-rise buildings. To improve their buckling stability, shear resistance, and energy-dissipating capacity...

This study presents a comprehensive seismic performance assessment and performance-based seismic design (PBSD) optimization for a 21-story Science and Innovation Building with three basement levels, characterized by pronounced plan and vertical irreg...

The survivorship of cementless orthopaedic implants may be related to their initial stability; insufficient press-fit can lead to excessive micromotion between the implant and bone, joint pain, and surgical revision. However, too much interference be...