In this note we analyze the influence of four damage models on the collapse load of a structure. The models considered here have been developed using the hypothesis based on the concept of effective stress and the principle of strain equivalence and they were proposed by Lemaitre and Chaboche (1990, Mechanics of Solid Materials), Wang (1992, “Unified CDM Model and Local Criterion for Ductile Fracture—I. Unified CDM Model for Ductile Fracture,” Eng. Fract. Mech., 42, pp. 177–183), Chandrakanth and Pandey (1995, “An Isotropic Damage Model for Ductile Material,” Eng. Fract. Mech., 50, pp. 457–465), and Bonora (1997, “A Nonlinear CDM Model for Ductile Failure,” Eng. Fract. Mech., 58, pp. 11–28). The differences between them consist mainly in the form of the dissipative potential from which the kinetic law of damage is derived and also in the assumptions made about some parameters of the material.
A general approach for the systematic evaluation of the critical buckling load and the determination of the buckling mode is presented. The Navier-Bernoulli beam model is considered, having the possibility of variable cross-section under any type of load (including pressures and thermal loading). With this purpose, the equilibrium equations of each beam element in its deformed configuration under the hypothesis of infinitesimal strains and displacements is considered, resulting in a system of differential equations with variable coefficients for each element. To obtain the nonlinear response of the frame, one should impose the compatibility of displacements and the equilibrium of forces and moments in each beam-end, also in the deformed configuration. The solution is obtained by requiring that the total variation of potential energy is zero at the instant of buckling. The objective of this work is to develop a systematic method to determine the critical buckling load and the buckling mode of any frame without using the common simplifications usually assumed in matrix analysis or finite element approaches. This way, precise results can be obtained regardless of the discretization done.
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