Practical Second‐Order Inelastic Analysis of Semirigid Frames
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 120, Issue 7
Abstract
The stability behavior of rigid and semirigid frames bent in the weak axis is investigated using a hardening plastic hinge method. The stability limit load of frames is usually overpredicted by the simple plastic hinge analysis neglecting the effect of partial plastification. The plastic zone analysis can predict the limit load more accurately but a large number of elements must be used. Hence, it is costly and time‐consuming. An alternative method called the “hardening plastic hinge method” is developed here for practical use. In the proposed method, one element is used per beam‐column. The initial yield surface including residual stress is first determined from the normalized moment‐curvature‐thrust relationship of section. The member stiffness is then modified to simulate the effect of partial plastification through the concept of work‐hardening in which the average degradation of tangent stiffness of a cross section is calibrated against the slopes of the exact moment‐curvature‐thrust relationship. The stability limit loads of planar steel frames predicted by this and several other methods are compared. The results predicted by the hardening‐hinge method are found close to that of the plastic‐zone method and experimental results.
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Copyright © 1994 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Mar 8, 1993
Published online: Jul 1, 1994
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