Theoretical research on aluminium members under cyclic axial loading

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10.2991/iccet-15.2015.44How to use a DOI?

Keywords

aluminium member, cyclic axial loading, mechanical property, FEA

Abstract

This paper studies the influence of various parameters, such as alloy types and slenderness ratios, on the hysteretic behavior of compression aluminium members under cyclic axial loading. In this research, a method by finite element analysis was proposed. The method was based on FEA software, ANSYS. The effects of material nonlinearity, geometrical nonlinearity and initial imperfection were considered in this analysis model. By comparing the hysteretic curves, reversal skeleton curves and stiffness degradation curves of aluminium columns obtained by the model, it concludes that, for the same slenderness ratio, the hysteretic behavior of 6061-T6 aluminium columns were better than 6061-T4. For the same alloy type, the specimen which has smaller slenderness ratio has the superior performance under cyclic loading.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xuechao Chen
AU  - Zheng Zhang
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - Theoretical research on aluminium members under cyclic axial loading
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Transportation 2015
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 226
EP  - 229
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccet-15.2015.44
DO  - 10.2991/iccet-15.2015.44
ID  - Chen2015/11
ER  -