Abstract: A consistent finite-element formulation is presented in order to analyze the spatial stability of shear deformable thin-walled space frames and circular arches. The displacement field of unsymmetric thin-walled cross ...

Abstract: In a companion paper, transformation rules of Rodriguez' finite rotations and semitangential rotations are derived, respectively, and their rotational properties are discussed. The shear deformable displacement field of ...

Abstract: An improved shear deformable curved beam theory to overcome the drawback of currently available beam theories is newly proposed for the spatially coupled stability analysis of thin-walled curved beams with nonsymmetric ...