Effect of Bowing on Rectangular Plane Frames
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of the Structural Division
- Vol. 107 (3) , 569-574
- https://doi.org/10.1061/jsdeag.0006151
Abstract
When a member is subjected to bending, there is a shortening of the chord length, as shown in Fig. l. This change in length has been called bowing deformation or curvature shortening. Researchers in the area of inelastic frame analysis continue to debate the merits of including bowing in second-order analyses (l).Keywords
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