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

https://hrcak.srce.hr/43829

Publication date:

1.12.2009.

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