Steel and Composite Structures
Volume 14, Number 1, 2013, pages 1-20
DOI: 10.12989/scs.2013.14.1.001
Nonlinear P-Δ analysis of steel frames with semi-rigid connections
Hamid R. Valipour and Mark A. Bradford
Abstract
This paper presents the formulation for a novel force-based 1-D compound-element that captures both material and second order <i>P</i>-
Key Words
flexibility; nonlinearity; <i>P</i>-
Address
Hamid R. Valipour: Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales; Mark A. Bradford: Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety, The University of New South Wales