VERIFICATION OF NUMERICAL WITH EXPEREMENTAL RESULTS FOR TAPERED STEEL FRAMES

Hammouda, Ayman Ibrahim

VERIFICATION OF NUMERICAL WITH EXPEREMENTAL RESULTS FOR TAPERED STEEL FRAMES

Document Type : Scientific and technological

Author

Ayman Ibrahim Hammouda

Abstract

This paper presents a comparative study between experimental results available in literature and a numerical analysis carried out by the authors dealing with the behavior of tapered steel frames. The effects of nonlinear stress-strain relationship, initial imperfections, and end-restraints (boundary conditions) are taken into consideration. ABAQUS is used for a nonlinear finite element model study. An experimental from literature test was used to verify the results obtained from ABAQUS.

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