Failure of Web-Flange Junction in Postbuckled Pultruded I-Beams
Publication: Journal of Composites for Construction
Volume 3, Issue 4
Abstract
A numerical procedure for analyzing a common and catastrophic failure mode in pultruded composite material I-beams is presented in this paper. Pultruded wide-flange profiles (often referred to as I-beams) exhibit a number of different failure modes when loaded in flexure or axial compression. The particular failure mode of interest to this paper is that due to the local separation of the flange from the web of the profile following local buckling of the flange. A node-separation technique is used to simulate the progressive failure of the joint between the flange and the web of the wide-flange beam in the postbuckled regime. The procedure has been implemented in NIKE3D, a multipurpose nonlinear implicit finite-element code. The fundamentals of the separation algorithm and the mechanics of the implementation in NIKE3D are described. The results of simulations using the proposed procedure are compared with experimental observations.
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Journal of Composites for Construction
Volume 3 • Issue 4 • November 1999
Pages: 177 - 184
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Received: Nov 6, 1998
Published online: Nov 1, 1999
Published in print: Nov 1999
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