İzmir Institute of Technology

CE 513 Theory of Elasticity

Spring 2020-2021 HW 6
Due Date: 21/05/2021 till 5 p.m. - LATE SUBMISSION IS NOT ACCEPTED.

Problem 1

The purpose of this problem is to investigate the effect of axial force on plastic moment
capacity of an elasto-plastic cross-section. To this end you are supposed to extent your
script/program written in previous homework (Homework # 5) so that you take into
account a tensile axial force. In other words, the rectangular section is not under pure
bending state but the stress resultant yields an axial force and a bending moment.
The squash load for the rectangular cross-section is Np = σy × b × h. Considering a set
of axial forces starting from

N = (0, Np /40, 2 × Np /40, 3 × Np /40, ..., Np )

calculate the corresponding plastic moment capacity and obtain the following M-N
interaction diagram. Please realize that the values on the x-axis are divided by Mp =
b × d2 × σy /4 and the values on the y-axis are divided by Np = σy × b × h.

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.6
N/Np

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
M/Mp

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Problem 2
The pinned-foot portal frame shown in the figure carries vertical and horizontal forces.
If Mp is equal to 300 kNm determine,

• the critical collapse mechanism,

• the load factor against collapse.

270λ kN

90λ kN
3MP

MP 3m

MP
5m

PSfrag replacements

4m 4m

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