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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 71
COMPUTATIONAL CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: G. De Roeck and B.H.V. Topping
Paper IV.2

Elasto-Plastic Structural Stability of Arches

R. Bertolino Jr.

Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
R. Bertolino Jr., "Elasto-Plastic Structural Stability of Arches", in G. De Roeck, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Computational Civil and Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 57-63, 2000. doi:10.4203/ccp.71.4.2
Abstract
The elastic-plastic structural stability behaviour of arches is analysed in the present work.

The application of the developed mathematical model, allows to determine the elastic-plastic equilibrium paths, looking for critical points, bifurcation or limit, along those paths, associated to the critical load, in case it comes to happen.

The equilibrium paths in the elastic-plastic behaviour when compared with the paths in the linear elastic behaviour, may show that, due to influence of the material plasticity, modifications paths appear and consequently alterations in the values of its critical loads.

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