Reformulation of Concentrated Plasticity Frame Element With N-M Interaction and Generalised Plasticity

This repository contains the source code and example models of paper 10.1061/JSENDH.STENG-12176.

To cite or reproduce figures in the paper, you can find the corresponding figure and copy the source code in your work.

The numerical examples used in the paper are developed in suanPan. To perform the numerical analysis, one can download and install suanPan. Then run the model via, for example, the following command in the corresponding folders under the corresponding folders in MODELS.

suanpan -f SingleSection.supan

All mentioned models are implemented in suanPan:

1. Elements
   1. 2D Beam Element NMB21
   2. 3D Beam Element NMB31
2. Sections
   1. Linear Hardening NM2D2
   2. Nonlinear Hardening NM2D3
   3. Per-component Hardening NM2D3K
   4. Linear Hardening NM3D2
   5. Nonlinear Hardening NM3D3
   6. Per-component Hardening NM32D3K