Numerical simulation of steel pretensioned bolted end-plate connections of different types and details

Engineering Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2677-2686

  Shi, Gang ^a   Shi, Yongjiu ^a   Wang, Yuanqing ^a   Bradford, Mark A ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

End plate connection; Finite element analysis; Joints; Pretensioned; Semi rigid

Indexed keywords

BOLTS; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; EQUIPMENT TESTING; FLANGES; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRESSES;

ANSYS SOFTWARE; BEAM COLUMNS; BOLTED END-PLATE; COLUMN FLANGE; COMPONENT METHODS; END PLATE CONNECTION; END PLATES; EUROCODE; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; FRICTIONAL FORCES; JOINT DESIGNS; JOINTS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOURS; MECHANICAL MODELLING; MOMENT-ROTATION; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PANEL ZONES; PARAMETRIC FINITE ELEMENT; PLATE CONNECTIONS; PRETENSIONED; PRINCIPAL STRESSES; SEMI-RIGID; TEST RESULTS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BOLT; COLUMN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; JOINT; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOFTWARE; STEEL STRUCTURE;

EID: 52749098345     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2008.02.013     Document Type: Article

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