Structural Steel Tensile Fracture-Inception Prevention Limit State and Ductility Criteria

This paper proposes using the tensile-fracture-inception-prevention (TFIP) limit state and ductility parameter/criterion for a safer fracture-resistant design of the tension members of steel structures. Finite element (FE) analysis revealed that the tensile band localization strain (TBLS) is signifi...

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Main Authors: Adewole Kazeem Kayode, de Dieu Mutabaruka Jean
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2020-06-01
Series:Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/cee-2020-0015