Performance of steel beam-to-column connections with weld defects under inelastic cyclic loading

GÖREN KIRAL B., Erim S.

ADVANCES IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING, cilt.9, sa.4, ss.561-575, 2006 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 9 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2006
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1260/136943306778812804
  • Dergi Adı: ADVANCES IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.561-575
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: welded steel connections, seismic loading, fracture, finite element method
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study concerns the development of steel structures so that the connections can deform plastically without brittle fracture during an earthquake. Under earthquake loads, welded beam-to-column connections containing crack-like defects in the weld region have been studied using 3-D nonlinear finite element analyses. The effect of the connection type used for a welded steel structure and of the dynamic loading nature on the stress-strain distribution has been examined, as well as the fracture behaviour of the whole structure. Nonlinear finite element analyses were repeated for various frequency values for the different loading cases in order to study the effect of the strain rate.