Plastic Analysis 3rd Year Structural Engineering 2010/11

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Structural Analysis III Dr. C. Caprani 1 Plastic Analysis 3rd Year Structural Engineering 2010/11 Dr. Colin Caprani Structural Analysis III Dr. C. Caprani 2 Contents 1. Introduction ........................................ ........................................ ......................... 4 Background ........................................ ........................................ ....................... 4 2. Basis of Plastic Design ........................................ ........................................ ......... 5 Material Behaviour ........................................ ........................................ ........... 5 Cross Section Behaviour ........................................ ........................................ ... 7 Plastic Hinge Formation.

material, the most common, and simplest, model is the idealised stress-strain curve. This is the curve for an ideal elastic-plastic material (which doesn’t exist), and the graph is:

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