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A set of lecture notes from a university course on foundations structures, specifically focusing on rigid frames. The notes cover topics such as compression and buckling, moment redistribution, lateral load resistance, and bracing. The notes also discuss the behavior of rigid frames, including how moments get redistributed and how deflections are smaller in rigid frames compared to other types of structures.
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Rigid Frames 1Lecture 12
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
OUNDATIONS
S
TRUCTURES
:
ORM,
EHAVIOR, AND
ESIGN
R.
NNE
ICHOLS
PRING 2009
lecture
Rigid Frames 2Lecture 12
Foundations Structures
ARCH 331
rigid frames have nopins
-^
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 4Lecture 12
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moments get redistributed
deflections are smaller
effective column lengths are shorter
very sensitive to settling
Rigid Frames 5Lecture 12
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joints similar to fixed ends, but can rotate
-^
max
for simply supported beam
2
Rigid Frames 7Lecture 12
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rigidity
clear stories
Rigid Frames 8Lecture 12
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steel
concrete
Rigid Frames 10Lecture 12
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ARCH 331
S2009abn
knee-bracing
diagonal
K or chevron
shear walls
diagonal
X
K (chevron)
shear walls
Rigid Frames 11Lecture 12
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Rigid Frames 13Lecture 12
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axially loaded columns
-^
long & slender^ –
unstable equilibrium =
buckling
sudden and not good
Rigid Frames 14Lecture 12
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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
Rigid Frames 16Lecture 12
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related to deflected shape (P
shape of sine wave
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Euler’s Formula
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smallest
governs
(^
(^2) )
critical
π
Rigid Frames 17Lecture 12
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ARCH 331
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short columns
-^
slenderness ratio = L
/r (L/d)e
radius of gyration =
a
actual
critical
weak axis
(^
)^
2
2
(^22)
2
e
e
critical
critical
2
(^2) e
critical
Rigid Frames 19Lecture 12
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e^
Rigid Frames 20Lecture 12
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-^