Građevinar, Vol. 61 No. 11., 2009.
Original scientific paper
Modelling two-sided connections in steel frame structures
Damir Markulak
; Građevinski fakultet Osijek, Osijek, Hrvatska
Darko Ivanušić
; Institut IGH, Odjel za mostove, Osijek, Hrvatska
Abstract
Performance modelling procedures for two-sided connections, based on EN 1993-1-8, are critically analyzed. Possibilities offered by the finite element method in the sphere of determining behaviour of connections, and this by adding in-plane finite elements to a standard structural model in the connection zone around the web panel of the pier, are determined. Thus the real geometry of connection is taken into account, the iterative procedure becomes unnecessary, and the modelling complexity is not significantly increased.
Keywords
steel frame structures; two-sided connections; modelling; EN 1993-1-8; finite element method; member model
Hrčak ID:
43829
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2009.
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