Analysis of Load-Carrying Capacity of Thin-Walled Closed Beams with Different Slenderness

2014 ◽  
Vol 969 ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Jan Valeš

The presented paper deals with the load-carrying capacity analysis of compress steel members having the square closed (box) cross-section with non-dimensional slenderness 0.6, 0.8, 1.0 a 1.2. The axis of these beams is randomly three-dimensionally curved. Initial curvatures are modelled by random fields applying the LHS method. Load-carrying capacities are then calculated by the geometrically nonlinear solution using the ANSYS program. The results are presented both in form of histograms and of the table. The analysis of load-carrying capacity of beams with individual nonlinear slenderness is carried out, and the values are compared with the values of design load-carrying capacity according to the standard.

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Michal Tomko ◽  
Mohamad Al Ali ◽  
Ivo Demjan

Abstract The paper presents fundamental information about experimental and theoretic-numerical research to determinate the load-carrying capacity of thin-walled cold-formed compressed steel members. The investigated members have closed cross-sections made from homogeneous materials. The theoretic-numerical analysis in this paper is oriented on the modeling of the initial deviations effects, caused by production process, on the load-carrying capacities of mentioned members, while the experimental investigation is to verify the theoretical results and to investigate the behavior of mentioned members during the loading process.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 283-289
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Kala

Introduction: This contribution presents a comparison of three methods of the statistical computation of the design load-carrying capacity of a steel plane frame. Two approaches of the European Standard Eurocode 3 and one stochastic approach are applied. The stochastic approach takes into account the random influence of all imperfections and can be applied to the reliability verification of design according to Eurocode 3. Methods: The columns and beams in the steel frame are modelled with beam elements using the stability solution with buckling length and the geometrically nonlinear solution. The stochastic computational model is based on the geometrically nonlinear solution and on the random influence of initial imperfections, whose random samplings are simulated using the Monte Carlo method. Results and Conclusion: The design load-carrying capacity of the steel plane frame computed using the stability solution with buckling length is in good agreement with the stochastic solution in which the design value is calculated as 0.1 percentile. On the contrary, the geometrically nonlinear solution according to Eurocode 3 gives the lowest (safest) values of design load-carrying capacity.


2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kala ◽  
Z. Kala

Authors of article analysed influence of variability of yield strength over cross-section of hot rolled steel member to its load-carrying capacity. In calculation models, the yield strength is usually taken as constant. But yield strength of a steel hot-rolled beam is generally a random quantity. Not only the whole beam but also its parts have slightly different material characteristics. According to the results of more accurate measurements, the statistical characteristics of the material taken from various cross-section points (e.g. from a web and a flange) are, however, more or less different. This variation is described by one dimensional random field. The load-carrying capacity of the beam IPE300 under bending moment at its ends with the lateral buckling influence included is analysed, nondimensional slenderness according to EC3 is λ¯ = 0.6. For this relatively low slender beam the influence of the yield strength on the load-carrying capacity is large. Also the influence of all the other imperfections as accurately as possible, the load-carrying capacity was determined by geometrically and materially nonlinear solution of very accurate FEM model by the ANSYS programme.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 3468
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Kolakowski ◽  
Andrzej Teter

The phenomena that occur during compression of hybrid thin-walled columns with open cross-sections in the elastic range are discussed. Nonlinear buckling problems were solved within Koiter’s approximation theory. A multimodal approach was assumed to investigate an effect of symmetrical and anti-symmetrical buckling modes on the ultimate load-carrying capacity. Detailed simulations were carried out for freely supported columns with a C-section and a top-hat type section of medium lengths. The columns under analysis were made of two layers of isotropic materials characterized by various mechanical properties. The results attained were verified with the finite element method (FEM). The boundary conditions applied in the FEM allowed us to confirm the eigensolutions obtained within Koiter’s theory with very high accuracy. Nonlinear solutions comply within these two approaches for low and medium overloads. To trace the correctness of the solutions, the Riks algorithm, which allows for investigating unsteady paths, was used in the FEM. The results for the ultimate load-carrying capacity obtained within the FEM are higher than those attained with Koiter’s approximation method, but the leap takes place on the identical equilibrium path as the one determined from Koiter’s theory.


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