A semi-analytical method for plate and grid structures
Journal Article
Kuang, J. S., & Zhang, H. (2008)
A semi-analytical method for plate and grid structures. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering and Computational Mechanics, 161(3), 121-128. https://doi.org/10.1680/eacm.2008.161.3.121
In current design practice, analysis of plate and grid structures in civil engineering, such as waffle slabs, ribbed plates and slab-girder bridges, is based largely on code-s...
Eight-node membrane element with drilling degrees of freedom for analysis of in-plane stiffness of thick floor plates
Journal Article
Zhang, H., & Kuang, J. S. (2008)
Eight-node membrane element with drilling degrees of freedom for analysis of in-plane stiffness of thick floor plates. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 76(13), 2117-2136. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.2395
The development of eight-node arbitrary quadrilateral membrane elements with drilling degrees of freedom is presented using the compatible displacement interpolation within th...
Determining the Shear Modulus of Sitka Spruce from Torsion Tests
Conference Proceeding
Khokhar, A., Zhang, H., Ridley-Ellis, D. & Moore, J. (2008)
Determining the Shear Modulus of Sitka Spruce from Torsion Tests. In 10th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2008, 2137-2144. ISBN 9781615670888
This paper presents details of the experimental method, and preliminary results from, a series of torsion tests undertaken to evaluate the shear modulus of Sitka spruce (Picea...
Eight-node Reissner–Mindlin plate element based on boundary interpolation using Timoshenko beam function
Journal Article
Zhang, H., & Kuang, J. S. (2007)
Eight-node Reissner–Mindlin plate element based on boundary interpolation using Timoshenko beam function. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 69(7), 1345-1373. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.1809
A new eight-node Reissner-Mindlin plate element is developed with a special interpolation within the element. This special interpolation is an extension of the element boundar...
A stiffened plate analogy for plate-and -beam structures
Conference Proceeding
Kuang, J. S., & Zhang, J. H. (2006)
A stiffened plate analogy for plate-and -beam structures. In Joint International Conference on Computing and Decision Making in Civil and Building Engineering
The current design practice of plate-and-grid structures in buildings, such as waffle slabs and ribbed plates, is relied largely on code-specified approximate methods, and the...
Analysis of Stiffened Plates: An Effective Semi-Analytical Method
Conference Proceeding
Kuang, J., & Zhang, H. (2003)
Analysis of Stiffened Plates: An Effective Semi-Analytical Method. In B. Topping (Ed.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Computing
During the past three decades, a large amount of research results on the analysis and design of stiffened plates has been reported. Most of the methods used in the analyses in...
Unconventional Hamilton-type variational principle in phase space and symplectic algorithm.
Journal Article
Luo, E., Huang, W. & Zhang, J. (2003)
Unconventional Hamilton-type variational principle in phase space and symplectic algorithm. SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy. 46, 248-258. doi:10.1360/03yg9033. ISSN 1674-7348
By a novel approach proposed by Luo, the unconventional Hamilton-type variational principle in phase space for elastodynamics of multidegree-of-freedom system is established i...