Improved nonlinear plastic hinge analysis of space frame structures

Engineering Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1324-1338

  Liew, J Y Richard ^a   Chen, H ^a   Shanmugam, N E ^a   Chen, W F ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced analysis; Buckling; Instability; Nonlinear analysis; Plastic hinges; Space frames

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BENDING STRENGTH; BUCKLING; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HINGES; INTERPOLATION; STABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; PLASTIC HINGES; SPACE FRAME STRUCTURES;

STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

EID: 0033737734     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(99)00085-1     Document Type: Article

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