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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 106
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 154

Warping Effects on the Stability of Non-Trivial Equilibria for Thin-Walled Beams

M. Brunetti, E. Lofrano, A. Paolone and G. Ruta

Dipartmento Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica, "Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
M. Brunetti, E. Lofrano, A. Paolone, G. Ruta, "Warping Effects on the Stability of Non-Trivial Equilibria for Thin-Walled Beams", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 154, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.106.154
Keywords: thin-walled beams, constitutive couplings, warping, stability, non-trivial equilibria..

Summary
A direct model coarsely describing warping, endowed with nonlinear constitutive relations, yields field equations for open thin-walled beams. They are numerically integrated using an in-house numerical code, providing non-trivial equilibria and examining their stability. Warping effects on critical loads and natural frequencies for generic cross-sections, affected by constitutive couplings (bending, torsion, warping) are investigated. In addition some methods of validating experiments are described.

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