Coupled Bending and Twisting of Thin-Walled Composite Beams
Thin-walled open-section composite material beams of the T, I and J geometries are routinely used as stiffeners for structural components in aerospace vehicles (Starnes et al, 1985). In...

On the Design of Laminated Composite Flange: A Model with Experimental Verification
A parametric model has been developed for the optimum design of laminated composite flange. The study focuses on the evaluation and performance optimization of composite flanges with the...

Evaluation of the Rotation Capacity of Wide-Flange Beams Using Shell Finite Elements
Numerical simulation can be useful for planning of experimental tests, performance of parametric studies, and achieving an understanding of complex three-dimensional behavior that may...

Fatigue Behavior of Steel Connection Angles
A method for predicting the fatigue behavior of flange angle elements is presented. The primary emphasis herein concerns an analytical approach for evaluating the fatigue life of flange...



Strengthening Old Floors
The floors of the historic City Hall and Courthouse in Minneapolis had withstood 80 years of hard use before they have to be analyzed and brought up to code. The building is about 300...



Hundreds of Bridges�Thousands of Cracks
In the past 10 years hundreds of welded steel bridges, most of them relatively new, have suffered thousands of cracks due to secondary stresses, that is, the cracks are caused by deflections...







Flanged Reinforced Concrete Flexural Members
Design aids in the forms of charts and tables are available for design of reinforced concrete flexural members. Many of these design aids were developed for design of rectangular cross...

 

 

 

 

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