Abstract: Short, shear yielding links are preferred in eccentrically braced frames (EBFs) because of their demonstrated excellent strength, stiffness, and energy‐dissipation capacity. Longer flexural yielding links, however, can ...

Abstract: The notion of Plastic Internal Variables (PIV ) is used in reformulating, in a general form, the equations of rate-independent plasticity. The stress, temperature, and the PIV are the state ...

Abstract: Application of special isoparametric finite elements is presented for the elastic-plastic analysis of shells of revolution. General isoparametric elements are selected which, in the form of a ...

Abstract: Sixteen ASME standard torispherical heads attached to cylinders and subjected to internal pressure are analyzed as elastic and/or elastic-plastic shells using a new finite element. As basic ...