@inproceedings{StapelfeldLaunertPasternaketal., author = {Stapelfeld, Christoph and Launert, Benjamin and Pasternak, Hartmut and Doynov, Nikolay and Michailov, Vesselin}, title = {The Influence of Geometrical and Welding Imperfections on the Strength of Stiffened Structures}, series = {High Performance Steel Structures Research Council (HPSSRC), Delft, Netherlands, 2018}, booktitle = {High Performance Steel Structures Research Council (HPSSRC), Delft, Netherlands, 2018}, pages = {191 -- 201}, abstract = {The strength calculation of stiffened plates and shells via finite element simulation has been part of the state of the art for a long time. Geometrical nonlinearities as well as the nonlinear material behavior are considered within the calculation. To simplify, both types of imperfections, geometrical and structural ones, are mostly combined in these strength calculations being considered as equivalent geometrical imperfections. Values for standard cases are included in EN 1993-1-5 in case of plated structures or 1-6 in case of shells. A second possibility is the separate definition of fabrication tolerances and residual stresses, as far as they are known. With increasing complexity of the structure, less information are however available on geometrical and particularly structural imperfections. Nevertheless, by means of a more realistic consideration of these values, the actual ultimate load can be determined significantly more exactly and the performance of high performance steel structures is increased. In the investigated cases, deformations and stresses arise mainly due to welding. Therefore, the topic of this article is the application of an analytical numerical hybrid model for predicting imperfections induced by welds. This is presented on an example of a stiffened steel structure and a subsequent ultimate load calculation. At the beginning the analytical model, its physical basis as well as the physical interrelationships are introduced and explained. This is followed by the explanation of the coupling procedure between the analytical model and the numerical calculation for the calculation of weld-induced deformations and residual stresses. The significance of the hybrid model is proven by means of a few sample applications. For a realistic determination of the weld imperfections in the investigated stiffened structure, the coupled hybrid model is used afterwards. An ultimate load analysis gives information about the load carrying behavior under axial loading. The results are compared with the results of an ultimate load analysis from a literature example assuming different eigenvalues with different scaling. The results underline the potential additional utilization of load bearing capacity by this new approach.}, language = {en} } @misc{LiXuGeissleretal., author = {Li, Zheng and Xu, Siying and Geißler, Karsten and Wang, Jian and Pasternak, Hartmut}, title = {Developed numerical Analysis of Residual Stress caused by Welding and Cutting in Steel Structures}, series = {ce/papers}, volume = {6}, journal = {ce/papers}, number = {3-4}, issn = {2509-7075}, doi = {10.1002/cepa.2601}, pages = {1507 -- 1512}, abstract = {The welding and flame-cutting process in the steel construction are commonly used, especially for the bridge structure. Some experiments about welding and cutting have been done separately by some researchers. The results from the experiments were also compared with the results from the numerical simulation under 3D or 2D models. The agreements between those results are as good as they predicted. Therefore, the numerical simulation is a better way to analyze the quality of the steel construction after welding and cutting without time-consuming and a large amount of cost. But there are only a few research about the numerical simulation and the some of them are aimed to verify the experiments. In this study, the calculation about the residual stresses after welding and thermo-cutting are considered from 3D-model into 2D-Model. The heat source model is simply regarded as curves of time and welding energy with the algorithm methods. And no matter the change of the parameters of the model and the heat source, the heat transfer and the residual stresses can be calculated with the 2D models as fast as possible. By the means of the finite element software Abaqus, the I-profiles are easy to receive the job results with the input parameters. The influence of the welding and cutting process are visual and direct.}, language = {en} }