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Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)

2004

Steel

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Beam Element Verification For 3d Elastic Steel Frame Analysis, Lip H. Teh Jan 2004

Beam Element Verification For 3d Elastic Steel Frame Analysis, Lip H. Teh

Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)

The paper describes the attributes that should be possessed by a benchmark example for verifying the beam elements used to carry out 3D linear buckling analysis and 3D second-order elastic analysis of steel frames. Based on the attributes described, the paper proposes a suite of benchmark examples selected from the literature. The necessary features of a beam element required to pass the proposed benchmark problems are given, and beam elements that possess these features are cited. The paper also explains the merits of linear buckling analysis examples, and provides a commentary on two well-known examples.


Analysis And Design Of Double-Sided High-Rise Steel Pallet Rack Frames, Lip H. Teh, Gregory J. Hancock, Murray J. Clarke Jan 2004

Analysis And Design Of Double-Sided High-Rise Steel Pallet Rack Frames, Lip H. Teh, Gregory J. Hancock, Murray J. Clarke

Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)

In routine design of steel storage rack frames, it is far more common to perform two dimensional (2D) rather than three dimensional (3D) linear buckling analyses. In this paper, it is demonstrated that the global buckling behavior of high-rise steel storage rack frames may not be revealed by 2D buckling analyses as 3D interaction modes are involved. It is shown that the monosymmetric upright columns of a high-rise rack frame fail in a flexural–torsional mode due to the shear-center eccentricity of the sections, and that the 3D frame buckling analysis is more reliable in determining the critical members of a …