Inelastic Buckling Gradient

Inelastic Buckling of Concrete Column in Braced

The paper proposes an improved method of analysis of reinforced concrete columns in braced (no-sway) frames, which is suitable as a simple computer solution for design practice and is more realistic than the existing ACI and CBB methods. The elastic restraint provided by beams adjacent to columns is described by rotational springs. The inelastic behavior of concrete is defined by a uniaxial str...

Stress Gradient Effect on the Buckling of Thin Plates

This paper presents an analytical method to calculate the buckling stress of a rectangular thin plate under nonuniform applied axial stresses. Two cases are considered, buckling of a plate simply supported on all four sides and buckling of a plate simply supported on three sides with one unloaded edge free and the opposite unloaded edge rotationally restrained. These two cases illustrate the in...

Inelastic Behavior of Concrete-filled Thin-walled Steel Tubular Columns Subjected to Local Buckling

This paper is concerned with the inelastic behavior of axially loaded concrete-filled thin-walled steel tubular columns subjected to local buckling. A nonlinear fiber element analysis program accounting for local buckling effects is developed for predicting the ultimate strength and ductility of concrete-filled thin-walled steel tubular columns. The effects of local buckling are taken into cons...

Modeling Elastic and Inelastic, Critical- and Post-buckling Behavior of Bracing Members

An efficient beam element, the modified elastofiber (MEF) element, has been developed to capture the overall features of the elastic and inelastic response of slender columns and braces under axial cyclic loading without unduly heavy discretization. It consists of three fiber segments, two at the member ends and one at mid-span, with two elastic segments sandwiched in between. The segments are ...

Buckling Analysis