Plastic Limit Analysis of Ice Coating Transmission Tower-Line Systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 163-167 ◽  
pp. 106-109
Author(s):  
Jun Qi Chen ◽  
Wei Wang

Transmission tower-line systems with different elevations in mountainous areas are established in this paper. The change curve of ice increasing with time was given according to the data of ice record. Considering the influences of height difference, ice increasing, plastic analysis of transmission tower is carried out. It can be concluded that the ultimate bearing capacities of ice coating of the tower is significantly influenced by the elevation of the towers beside it. It also can be concluded that the ultimate bearing capacity of ice coating can be improved only when the section of weakness member is increased.

2013 ◽  
Vol 368-370 ◽  
pp. 1468-1471
Author(s):  
Qiu Hua Duan ◽  
Dan Dan Zeng ◽  
Lu Feng Yang ◽  
Yue Jing Luo

This paper summarizes the structure forms and characteristics of the aqueduct's supporting structure. The main method of plastic limit analysis and theory of the aqueduct's supporting structure were introduced, and the existing problems of the present research were analyzed in the paper, and thereby the research trends of the ultimate bearing capacity of the aqueduct's supporting structure in near future was proposed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Accornero ◽  
Giuseppe Lacidogna

The evolutionary analysis of the fracturing process is an effective tool to assess of the structural bearing capacity of masonry arch bridges. Despite their plain basic assumptions, it must be remarked that elastic analysis and plastic or limit analysis can hardly be used to describe the response and predict damage for moderate or service load levels in masonry arch bridges. Therefore, a fracture mechanics-based analytical method with elastic-softening regime for masonry is suitable in order to study the global structural behaviour of arch bridges, highlighting how the arch thrust line is affected by crack formation, and the maximum admissible load evaluated by means of linear elastic fracture mechanics is larger than the load predicted by elasticity theory. Such an increment in terms of bearing capacity of the arch bridge can be defined “fracturing benefit”, and it is analogous to the “plastic benefit” of the plastic limit analysis. The fracturing process, which takes into account the fracture initiation and propagation in the masonry arch bulk, occurs before the set-in of the conditions established by means of the plastic limit analysis. In the present paper, the study of the elastic-fracture-plastic transitions is performed for three monumental masonry arch bridges with different shallowness and slenderness ratios. This application returns an accurate and effective whole service life assessment of masonry arch bridges, and more in general it can be suitable for a great number of historical masonry structures still having strategic or heritage importance in the infrastructure systems.


1973 ◽  
Vol 17 (03) ◽  
pp. 147-161
Author(s):  
Alaa Mansour ◽  
Norman Jones

Elastic and plastic limit analyses of a web frame of a 225,000-dwt tanker are presented. In the elastic range, three different methods are used to examine the behavior of the frame under the same loading conditions. Beyond the elastic range, plastic limit analysis is performed to investigate the collapse mechanisms and the corresponding collapse pressures. The results of these different approaches are discussed and compared.


2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 2859-2870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Chaaba ◽  
Lahbib Bousshine ◽  
Mohamed Aboussaleh ◽  
Hassan El Boudaia

Author(s):  
Majid Movahedi Rad

In this study reliability based limit analysis is used to determine the ultimate capacity of laterally loaded piles.  The aim of this study is to evaluate the lateral load capacity of free-head and fixed-head long pile when plastic limit analysis is considered. In addition to the plastic limit analysis to control the plastic behaviour of the structure, uncertain bound on the complementary strain energy of the residual forces is also applied. This bound has significant effect for the load parameter. The solution to reliability-based problems is based on a direct integration technique and the uncertainties are assumed to follow Gaussian distribution. The optimization procedure is governed by the reliability index calculation.


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