土建外文翻譯----剪力墻框架結(jié)構(gòu)中的應(yīng)力分布（英文）

1、G.U. Journal of Science 20(1): 7-14 (2007) www.gujs.org Stress Distribution In a Shear Wall – Frame Structure Using Unstructured – Refined Finite Element Mesh Bahad?r ALYAVUZ* Gazi University, Faculty of Engineering &a

2、mp; Architecture, Department of Civil Engineering, 06570, Ankara Received: 01.09.2005 Accepted: 26.01.2007 ABSTRACT A semi-automatic algorithm for finite element analysis is presented to obtain the stress and strain

3、distribution in shear wall-frame structures. In the study, a constant strain triangle with six degrees of freedom and mesh refinement - coarsening algorithms were used in Matlab® environment. Initially the propose

4、d algorithm generates a coarse mesh automatically for the whole domain and the user refines this finite element mesh at required regions. These regions are mostly the regions of geometric discontinuities. Deformation,

5、normal and shear stresses are presented for an illustrative example. Consistent displacement and stress results have been obtained from comparisons with widely used engineering software. Key Words: Shear wall, FEM, Uns

6、tructured mesh, Refinement. * Corresponding author, e-mail: balyavuz@gazi.edu.tr 1. INTRODUCTION In the last two decades, shear walls became an important part of our mid and high rise residential buildings in Turkey. A

7、s part of an earthquake resistant building design, these walls are placed in building plans reducing lateral displacements under earthquake loads so shear-wall frame structures are obtained. Since the 1960’s several

8、approaches have been adopted to solve displacements and stress distribution of shear wall structures. Continuous medium approaches, and frame analogy models are the examples of these approaches [1-4]. In the past and

9、 today, numerical solution methods are the main effort area because of the accuracy of solution and the ease of usage in 2D and 3D analysis of shear walls [5-7]. Shear walls with openings, coupled shear walls and co

10、mbined shear wall frame structures can be modeled as thin plates where the loading is uniformly distributed over the thickness, in the plane of the plate. This 2D domain can be subdivided into a finite number of geom

11、etrical shapes. In the finite element method (FEM), these simple shaped elements such as triangles or quadrilaterals (in 2D) are called elements. The connection of these individual elements at nodes and along interel

12、ement boundaries covering the whole problem domain is called finite element mesh or grid. In the literature meshes can be grouped into two main categories such as structured and unstructured meshes. Structured meshe

13、s are constructed with geometrically similar triangular or quadrilateral elements. They are suitable especially for problems with simple geometry and boundary shapes (Figure 1-a). Although structured meshes can be co

14、nstructed as simple-time saving routines, regarding complicated domains with complex boundaries, it is a problem to fit the boundary shape. To circumvent this difficulty, unstructured meshes are used to discretize th

15、e complicated domains with internal boundaries (Figure 1-b). While it is a time consuming procedure, unstructured meshes are also suitable for local mesh refinement and coarsening. The aim of this work is to get a go

16、od quality unstructured mesh which will have smaller elements at the geometric discontinuities and bigger elements at other regions for a shear wall frame geometry. G.U. J. Sci., 20(1):7-14 (2007)/, Bahad?r ALYA

17、VUZ 9 (a) (b) Figure 1. Structured (a) and unstructured mesh (b) Figure 2. Constant strain triangular finite element abcdabcd(a) (b)Figure 3. A triangulation which obeys the empty circle criterion (a), triangulation wh

18、ich does not obey the criterion (b). (a) (b) (c) Figure 4. First kind of triangles (a), second kind of triangles (b), and after refinement (c) s