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Capacity Design

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Welcome The capacity design approach explicitly considers the problem of determining the failure mechanism of members. The basic idea is to force the m
ductile manner by making the capacity of the member in other possible failure modes greater. It involves the simple application of plastic analysis
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Course In the case of the beam shown at left, the preferred ductile mode of failure is flexure, while brittle
Intro be avoided. Therefore the shear corresponding to the plastic moment in the beam is the design s
Design Philosophy then designed so that its nominal shear strength is greater than this shear.
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Elastic Response
In order for capacity design to work, it is vital that reasonable, probable capacities for a member be determined. Often, beams have significant o
Inelastic Response: flexure which must be taken into account in order to determine what the actual plastic moments might be.
Basics & SDOF
MDOF systems This procedure works well for designing the beams in a strong-column/weak beam design and for joints, but doesn't work nearly as well for column
Design Methods system behaves as a whole is not considered.
Plastic Design
System Behavior Capacity design procedures are implemented in the New Zealand code and in various parts of the concrete sections of the UBC. They are also hi
of the UBC provisions.
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