Study on Structural Design Approach by Inelastic Analysis (2) Selection of constitutive equations considering design conditions

Abstract

Dependency of inelastic analysis results on constitutive equations prevents their application to structural designs. To overcome above difficulty, this study proposed a selection method of classical constitutive equations that give conservative solutions against design problems. The reason why classical equations were adopted is that results of detailed constitutive models depend strongly on load histories that are unclear in design stage.