A deformation based approach to structural steel design

Current structural steel design codes, such as EN 1993-1-1, were developed on the basis of a bi-linear (elastic, perfectly-plastic) material model, which lends itself to the idea of cross-section classification. This step-wise design concept is a useful, but somewhat artificial simplification of the...

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Main Author: Wang, Facheng
Other Authors: Gardner, Leroy
Published: Imperial College London 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.530426