Sensitivity analysis of steel plane frames with initial imperfections

Engineering Structures

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2342-2349

  Kala, Zdeněk ^a  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Buckling; Imperfection; Portal frame; Sensitivity analysis; Simulation; Stability; Steel; Structure; Variance

Indexed keywords

BEAM ELEMENTS; DOMINANT INPUT; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; GEOMETRICAL NONLINEAR; HIGHER ORDER; IMPERFECTION; INITIAL IMPERFECTION; INTERACTION EFFECT; LATIN HYPERCUBE SAMPLING; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITIES; MUTUAL INTERACTION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PORTAL FRAME; RANDOM IMPERFECTIONS; SIMULATION; STABILITY PROBLEM; STEEL PORTAL FRAMES; VARIANCE;

CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; TANKERS (SHIPS);

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BUCKLING; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; LOADING TEST; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH WORK; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STEEL STRUCTURE;

EID: 79958044064     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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