ELASTIC ANALYSIS OF STEEL FRAMES SUBJECTED TO DYNAMIC LOADING

Abstract

Safety of a structure is the first and foremost priority of a structural engineer. That can be achieved only when the different properties and behavior of the various materials used for construction are known. Initially we set out on this project with the objective of analyzing the behavior of steel frames subjected to dynamic loading. But unfortunately, just like the rest of the world, our project was also affected by the current global pandemic. This led to a change of scope and restricted us to the analysis of steel beams subjected to static loads. The method consists of the following: (1) developing a code using MATLAB that is able to carry out the elastic analysis of beams, (2) verification of results on ABAQUS. The code developed is able to carry out the linear analysis of determinate and indeterminate 2D beams subjected to dynamic loading and the comparison with results from ABAQUS verifies the code. Our work has laid down the basis for further studies in this regard and this project shall be continued by the upcoming batch