A rational elasto-plastic spatially curved thin-walled beam element

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 253-290

  Pi, Yong Lin ^a   Bradford, Mark Andrew ^a   Uy, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arbitrary thin walled cross section; Curved beam element; Effects of load and restraint positions; Elastic restraints and supports; Elasto plastic; Initial geometric imperfections; Residual stresses; Wagner effects

Indexed keywords

ABAQUS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

CURVED-BEAM ELEMENT; INITIAL GEOMETRIC IMPERFECTIONS; WAGNER EFFECTS;

THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

ABAQUS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; STRUCTURAL LOADS; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES; TORSIONAL STRESS;

EID: 34247151956     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1873     Document Type: Article

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