The continuous strength method
By L. Gardner. 2008
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Many of the principal concepts that underpin current metallic structural design codes were developed on the basis of bilinear (elastic, perfectly-plastic) material behaviour; such material behaviour lends itself to the concept of section classification. The continuous strength method represents an alternative treatment to cross-section classification, which is based on a continuous relationship between slenderness and (inelastic) local buckling and a rational exploitation of strain hardening. The development and application of the continuous strength method to structural steel design is described herein. Materials that exhibit a high degree of nonlinearity and strain hardening, such as aluminium, stainless steel and some high-strength steels, fit less appropriately into the framework of cross-section classification, and generally benefit to a greater extent from the continuous strength method. The method provides better agreement with test results in comparison to existing design codes, and offers increas...
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Citations in the corpus
- Comparative experimental study of hot-rolled and cold-formed rectangular hollow sections (2010, methodology): “A feature of many of the tests was the pronounced over-strength in comparison to current design guidance as a result of strain hardening; a new design approach, the continuous strength method (CSM), is under development to address this issue.”
- The continuous strength method for the design of circular hollow sections (2016, background): “47 [8], which can then be substituted into Eq.”
- Cross-section stability of lean duplex stainless steel welded I-sections (2013, methodology): “The continuous strength method (CSM) is a recently developed deformation-based design method [8, 9] that replaces traditional cross-section classification with a continuous non-dimensional measure of the deformation capacity of a cross-section, and employs a strain hardening material model to assess”
- Stress-strain curves for hot-rolled steels (2017, methodology): “This model considers strain hardening, is included in Annex C of EN 1993-1-5 [14], and has been used throughout the development of the strain-based continuous strength method (CSM), which allows for the beneficial influence of strain hardening on the design of structural metallic elements, including”