Modeling of connections in the analyses of thin-walled space frames

✍ Scribed by H. Shakourzadeh; Y.Q. Guo; J.L. Batoz

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 310 KB
• Volume: 71
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0045-7949
• DOI: 10.1016/s0045-7949(98)00241-7

✦ Synopsis

This paper deals with the ®nite element formulation for the analysis of space frames. A numerical method is presented to take into account the deformation of the joint connections in linear, non-linear and stability analyses of three-dimensional thin-walled beam structures.