FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF SPACE TRUSSES UNDER SEISMIC LOADS

Authors

  • Hala Bakr Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minufiya University, Egypt
  • Boshra Eltaly Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minufiya University, Egypt
  • Maher Elabd Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minufiya University, Egypt
  • Kameel Kandil Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minufiya University, Egypt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11113/mjce.v28.15706

Keywords:

Space trusses, space truss connections, composite action, finite element method, modal analysis, time history analysis.

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2018-03-29

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FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF SPACE TRUSSES UNDER SEISMIC LOADS. (2018). Malaysian Journal of Civil Engineering, 28(1). https://doi.org/10.11113/mjce.v28.15706