Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Investigating the role of gradual yielding in stainless steel columns
and beams by virtual testing
P. Hradil & A. Talja
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland
ABSTRACT: The metallic materials such as stainless steels are well known for the pronounced rounded shape
of their stress-strain diagram. However, this material nonlinearity may change locally due to the fabrication, and
therefore the load-displacement response of the structural member is not always the same as the stress-strain
relation of the original material. The aim of this paper is to study the sensitivity of member ...