Abstract: In this paper, a thermodynamic analysis of Bouc–Wen models endowed with both strength and stiffness degradation is provided. This analysis is based on the relationship between the flow rules of these models and those of ...

Abstract: Displacement-based and two-field mixed beam elements are proposed for the linear analysis of steel–concrete composite beams with shear lag and deformable shear connection. The kinematics of the shear lag relies on a parabolic ...

Abstract: The simulation in real time of heterogeneous systems has to guarantee that the time integration of the equations of motion is always successfully completed within an a priori fixed sampling time interval. Therefore, numerical ...

Abstract: The use of simplified numerical substructures in hybrid fire simulation is clearly advantageous as long as the resulting simulation accuracy is sufficient. However, excluding geometrical and material nonlinearities from ...