Design of Steel Plated Structures with Finite Elements

European Convention for Constructional Steelworks - ECCS, TC8 Structural Stability, TWG 8.3 Plate Buckling, Chairperson: Prof. U. Kuhlmann, Secretary: Dr. B. Braun

1 INTRODUCTION
2 AREA OF APPLICATION
Typical rectangular plates
Arbitrary geometries and boundary conditions
3 CALCULATION METHODS AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
Overview of calculation methods
Linear analysis
Linear buckling analysis
Material nonlinear analysis
Geometric nonlinear analysis including imperfections (GNIA)
Geometric and material nonlinear analysis including imperfections (GMNIA)
Software requirements
4 MODELLING (PREPROCESSING)
Material properties
Mesh discretisation
Boundary conditions
Imperfections
5 SOLUTION SETTINGS
General
Importance of large deformations
Prestress effect
Solver selection
Setting the convergence criterion
Time increment settings
Overcome convergency problems
Solution printout
6 EVALUATION AND VERIFICATION (POSTPROCESSING) AND INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS
Evaluation
Verification
Interpretation
7 BENCHMARK EXAMPLES
Longitudinally stiffened panel under normal force
Longitudinally stiffened panel subjected to shear force
Web in bending with weak stiffeners
Transversally stiffened steel plate girder subjected to patch loading
8 WORKED EXAMPLES
Bottom plate with trapezoidal stiffeners
Web subjected to shear and bending
Patch loading verification of a box girder bridge
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
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