Imperial College London
Alternate

Professor M Ahmer Wadee

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor of Nonlinear Mechanics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 6050a.wadee Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Ruth Bello +44 (0)20 7594 6040

 
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Location

 

421Skempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Wu:2020:10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2020.105479,
author = {Wu, K and Wadee, MA and Gardner, L},
doi = {10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2020.105479},
journal = {International Journal of Mechanical Sciences},
title = {Interactive buckling in prestressed stayed beam-columns},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2020.105479},
volume = {174},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The instability of beam-columns with crossarms and externally prestressed cable stays is studied analytically, where the combination of bending and compression is assumed to be derived from the system self-weight acting orthogonally to the applied axial load. A nonlinear analytical model for prestressed stayed beam-columns with doubly-symmetric and mono-symmetric configurations, based on the Rayleigh–Ritz method, is presented that captures modal interactions for perfect geometries explicitly for the first time. It is demonstrated that the theoretical compressive strength enhancements under certain configurations can only be obtained at the expense of triggering a sequence of destabilizing bifurcations. This can give rise to severely unstable interactive post-buckling behaviour including the so-called ‘mode jumping’ phenomenon. Moreover, for mono-symmetric stayed beam-columns, it is shown that the varying levels of prestress within the stays can lead to different buckling modes which all have their own characteristic post-buckling responses. The analytical model is verified using a nonlinear finite element model formulated within the commercial code ABAQUS and excellent comparisons are obtained.
AU  - Wu,K
AU  - Wadee,MA
AU  - Gardner,L
DO  - 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2020.105479
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 0020-7403
TI  - Interactive buckling in prestressed stayed beam-columns
T2  - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2020.105479
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/77342
VL  - 174
ER  -
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