This paper presents an algorithm to model scaffold behaviour and follow the full moment-rotation curve including nonlinear loading and unloading behaviour and including looseness.
In particular, a nonlinear elasticity law is proposed to describe the observed nonlinear unloading behaviour following compaction.
Different sheathing-to-framing joint characteristics, including unloading behaviour, and stud-to-rail joint characteristics are incorporated in the analyses.
In this paper, the deformation patterns and failure modes, rotational stiffness and moment resistance, ductility and energy dissipation capacity, reloading and unloading behaviour are presented and discussed.
However, under certain conditions, the unloading behaviour can be viscoelastic, and if the viscosity effects are not corrected, the calculated modulus can be seriously erroneous.
Finite element simulations have been used to investigate the influence of equi-biaxial residual stress on the unloading behaviour of nanoindentation on elastic plastic strain-hardening materials.
The test results show that the SCS sandwich walls with J-hook connectors exhibit comparable behaviour in compressive resistance and post-peak unloading behaviour to the ones with the overlapped headed studs.
The standard Oliver Pharr method for measuring the elastic modulus by depth-sensing indentation makes use of the unloading response of the material as it is assumed that the unloading behaviour is purely elastic.
Viscoplastic modelling is based on a combination of two hardenings; the first classical (linear) one describes the translation of the elastic domain; the second (non-linear) one describes a translation coupled with a contraction of the elastic domain during loading that improves the unloading behaviour during repeated progressive loading tests.
The plastic deformation is incorporated into the stress strain curve to model the strain reversal effect in which unloading under elastic behaviour is allowed.
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