Sentence examples for hinges length from inspiring English sources

It should be noted that for a discretization with 4 elements, the analysis stopped for BF975 earthquake. Figure 18 show a comparison between the experimental results and the numerical results using displacement-based elements with concentrated plasticity (plastic hinges length is equal to zero at the ends).

General expressions for the plastic hinge length, l p. Some popular expressions for the calculation of plastic hinge length are presented in Table 1.

Moreover, the plastic hinge length expression proposed by Hassanli et al. (2017) was considered.

The plastic hinge length for each element was calculated using Eqs.

Some tests found that the confinement increased the plastic hinge length; whereas others showed otherwise.

Predicting the plastic hinge length accurately is an important part of seismic design of bridge piers.

Experimental tests have identified that FRP confinement affects the plastic hinge length of reinforced concrete columns.

The results are compared with the existing plastic hinge length equations.

In bridge columns, these nonlinear deformations generally occur over a finite hinge length.

Plastic hinge length and transverse reinforcement spacing are assumed to be effective parameters in the user-defined hinge properties.

Bohl and Adebar (2011) used VecTor2 program to investigate the plastic hinge length in high-rise concrete shear walls.