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Material Type: Notes; Professor: Nichols; Class: ELEMENTS OF ARCH STRUC; Subject: ARCHITECTURE; University: Texas A&M University; Term: Unknown 1989;
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Rigid Frames 1Lecture 11
Elements of Architectural Structures
ARCH 614
S2009abn
LEMENTS OF
A
RCHITECTURAL
S
TRUCTURES
:
ORM,
EHAVIOR, AND
ESIGN
R.
NNE
ICHOLS
PRING 2009
lecture
Rigid Frames 8Lecture 25
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rigid frames have nopins
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frame is all one body
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joints transfermoments and shear
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typically staticallyindeterminate
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types^ –
portal – gable
Rigid Frames 9Lecture 25
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behavior
Rigid Frames 10Lecture 25
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moments get redistributed
deflections are smaller
effective column lengths are shorter
very sensitive to settling
Rigid Frames 11Lecture 25
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resists lateralloadings
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shape depends onstiffness of beamsand columns
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90° maintained
Rigid Frames 12Lecture 25
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rigidity
clear stories
Rigid Frames 13Lecture 25
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steel
concrete
Rigid Frames 14Lecture 25
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Stability and Columns 15Lecture 22
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can be modeled with a spring at mid-height
when momentfrom deflectionexceeds thespring capacity... “boing”
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critical load P
Stability and Columns 16Lecture 22
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long & slender
short & stubby
Stability and Columns 17Lecture 22
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related to deflected shape (P
Δ
shape of sine wave
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Euler’s Formula
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smallest
governs
(^
(^2) )
critical
π
Stability and Columns 18Lecture 22
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short columns
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slenderness ratio = L
/r (L/d)e
radius of gyration =
a
actual
critical
weak axis
(^
)^
2
2
(^22)
2
e
e
critical
critical
π
π
2
(^2) e
critical
π
Stability and Columns 19Lecture 22
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when a column gets stubby, F
y^
will limit the
load for steel
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real world has loads with eccentricity
Stability and Columns 20Lecture 22
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e^
Stability and Columns 21Lecture 22
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Column Eccentricity 18Lecture 23
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allowable stress from strength or buckling
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combined stresses
Rigid Frames 18Lecture 25
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need support reactions
free body diagram each member
end reactions are equal and opposite onnext member
“turn” memberlike beam
draw V & M
Rigid Frames 19Lecture 25
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opposite endreactions at joints
M+
P
Rigid Frames 24Lecture 25
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ends can be “flexible”
stiffness affected by beamsand column = EI/L
for the joint
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lc^
is the column length of each column
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lb
is the beam length of each beam
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measured center to center
Σ Σ
Ψ =
Rigid Frames 19Lecture 26
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A B
Rigid Frames 29Lecture 11
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Rigid Frames 30Lecture 11
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define frame members
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or pre-defined frame
select points, assign supports
select members,assign section
load window
select point or member,add point or distributed
loads
Rigid Frames 31Lecture 11
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case menu
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Analyse...
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Linear (
st^
order elastic)
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choose options
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