Stability analysis of semi-rigid composite frames

Steel and Composite Structures

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-133

  Wang, Jing Feng ^a   Li, Guo Qiang ^b,c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Composite frame; Effective length factor; Moment rotation characteristics; Semi rigid connection

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

COMPOSITE FRAMES; EFFECTIVE LENGTH FACTOR; MOMENT ROTATION CHARACTERISTICS; SEMI RIGID CONNECTION;

STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

EID: 34247146933     PISSN: 12299367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/scs.2007.7.2.119     Document Type: Article

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