The stiffness reduction is studied in detail of compact W-Shapes (wide-flange steel shapes) that results from yielding of the cross-section due to uniaxial bending and axial compression. Three-dimensional m-p-τ su...The stiffness reduction is studied in detail of compact W-Shapes (wide-flange steel shapes) that results from yielding of the cross-section due to uniaxial bending and axial compression. Three-dimensional m-p-τ surface plots developed from detailed fiber element models of a W8x31 are used to develop a generalized material model for direct implementation in the virtual work method. A portal steel frame is used to illustrate the virtual work method with the nonlinear material model in a first-order, inelastic analysis implementation and in a second-order, inelastic analysis condition. The nonlinear modeling capabilities of MASTAN2 are used to verify the accuracy of the virtual work results and are found to be in very close agreement.展开更多
文摘The stiffness reduction is studied in detail of compact W-Shapes (wide-flange steel shapes) that results from yielding of the cross-section due to uniaxial bending and axial compression. Three-dimensional m-p-τ surface plots developed from detailed fiber element models of a W8x31 are used to develop a generalized material model for direct implementation in the virtual work method. A portal steel frame is used to illustrate the virtual work method with the nonlinear material model in a first-order, inelastic analysis implementation and in a second-order, inelastic analysis condition. The nonlinear modeling capabilities of MASTAN2 are used to verify the accuracy of the virtual work results and are found to be in very close agreement.