Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 351-352

Abstract: Ontology is an important mean for knowledge reuse, sharing and modeling. Building an ontology base for structural experiment (OBSE) is the basis of efficiently sharing of structural experiment data. With the help of domain experts, the knowledge of structural experiment was fully analyzed and summarized, and the corresponding ontology base has been designed following standardized method. In order to enrich the knowledge in OBSE, the conversion method from traditional spreadsheet data and relational data to the instances of ontology base was designed and implemented. The construction of OBSE provides a unified specification model in this domain, and reduces the heterogeneity of the concepts and terminology, making it possible for the information exchanging and sharing among staff in different positions or different operating platforms.

Abstract: The elasto-plastic stability analysis on the steel spatial arch truss with 120m span and 0.2 rise-span ratio is carried out with the finite element program ANSYS. In the analyses, two conditions which are the geometric and material nonlinear, double nonlinear under different initial geometric defects are considered. The results show that the instability modes of arch trusses are all asymmetric instability of plane, and that the buckling load and plastic development of the four arch trusses with L/500, L/400, L/300 and L/200 initial geometric defects are decreased with the increase of different initial geometric defects, and that the axial stress of all web members is about the same, but the value of which does not exceed 235Mpa.

Abstract: Taking the new type hybrid structure of suspendome as the analytical object, its stability performance is studied in detail. Through the method of nonlinear buckling analysis, the influences of different parameters on the stability are systematically analyzed i.e. rise-span ratio, plane shape factor, prestress and length of strut. The results show that rise-span ratio, plane shape factor and length of strut have great effects on the structural stability while prestress has small effect.

Abstract: According to the reduction of concrete and steel strength under the impact of fire, this paper studies the flexural capacity of concrete T-section beam after fire. Through meshing cross section, the residual strength of each unit material can be obtained from the respective temperature. Then find a matrix for the discrete numerical values and summarizes equations of flexural capacity at mid-span and support after fire respectively.

Abstract: The reduced stiffness method had been adopted to evaluate the material nonlinearity characteristics of reinforced concrete structures to be in compliance with concrete structure standards of the United States, New Zealand and Canada. Concrete structure design code in China also accepts the reduced stiffness method as a supplementary method of considering the second-order effects problem. However, the concrete structure with specially shaped columns code of China still use amplified coefficients of eccentricity to consider nonlinearity characteristics of reinforced concrete structure with special shaped columns. Based on the numerical integral method, a flexural stiffness reduction factor is proposed to consider characteristics of material nonlinearity and geometrical nonlinearity of reinforced concrete columns with equiaxial T shaped section.

Abstract: By briefly introducing the main steps of using strut-and-tie (STM) , this paper showing the preliminary calculation process. In this paper, defining D-region is the very first step in design.Then paper gives the method to calculate the reinforcement needed to meet required tie capacities. In addition, checking the room for struts is also an important step in the calculation. Since it can examine the correctness of the STM designed by engineer.

Abstract: In recent years, the portal frame structure in the actual project has been widely used, but using the finite element method calculation of stable bearing capacity of portal frame is more complex, and very difficult to the design and construction personnel. With the known stability of the cantilever column carrying capacity and the vertex of the lateral displacement under concentrated force, the establishment of the ratio of the portal frame stability capacity and the stability of the cantilever column carrying capacity both in the same concentrated force vertex lateral displacement than the relationship between the structural mechanics solver to seek out frame to the lateral displacement of the vertex under concentrated force, obtained by computing the stability capacity of the portal frame, and with the exact solution comparison and found that the methods of theoretical calculation results coincide with the exact solution, and then get an easy way of solving the portal frame stable bearing capacity. After numerical example, this method is simple, easy to master, and it has important reference value.

Abstract: With consideration of the intermediate principal stress,the calculation formula of bearing capacity of RPC filled steel tube columns under axial compression is deduced based on the twin shear unified strength theory. Combining with the bond-slip theory,new ultimate bearing capacity formula is derived with the highest regard for bond stress. Compared with the theoretical result and the experimental data,good agreement can be found. The results show that unified strength theory and the bond-slip theory are versatile in theoretical analysis of the column. The analysis results can be provided for the optimum design of RPC filled steel tube and the solution has an important practical value for engineering application.

Abstract: According to the domestic and foreign various building codes and a kind of limit fitting formula, to calculate and analyze the compressive bearing capacity of sandwich reinforced concrete beam-column nodes in a high-rising frame structure engineering, and to compare with the results calculated by Midas. They shown those are the facts that cant be neglected, the compressive bearing capacity of the sandwich node core area concrete in beam and plates constraint would improve and the amplitude of improving would be great. But current Chinese building codes haven't included them in the formal design provisions, these ways have to be perfected. In the same time, beam and plate constraint would also have a certain effect to the shear bearing capacity. By contrast, the shear bearing capacity in considering beam and plate constraint would increase 12% to 24%, it would get to 91% of the limit fitting formula calculation value when the short side was sheared, and it is 92% when the long side was sheared. That shown it is quite perfect in considering the effect of the orthogonal beam-plate constraints in domestic seismic code.

Abstract: This paper present some selected results of wind tunnel tests carried out on a typical super-tall building The variations of wind loads in the three orthogonal directions with wind attack direction were evaluated. The cross-correlations among various wind loading components were presented and discussed in detail. Furthermore, the across-wind spectral characteristics were studied and an empirical formula for estimation of the across-wind overturning moment spectrum for the super-tall building is presented. The output of this study is expected to be of considerable interest and practical use to professionals and researchers involved in the design of super-tall buildings.