Modelling of lightweight sandwich shear diaphragms for dynamic analyses

Journal of Constructional Steel Research

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-61

  De Matteis, Gianfranco ^a   Landolfo, Raffaele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cyclic behaviour; Experimental results; FEM analyses; Sandwich panels; Shear diaphragm; Strength degradation; Structural models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLIC LOADS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SHEAR WALLS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES; SHEAR DIAPHRAGMS;

STEEL STRUCTURES;

EID: 0033904007     PISSN: 0143974X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0143-974X(99)00038-3     Document Type: Article

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