Orientador: João Alberto Venegas Requena / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T15:27:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vieira_RodrigoCuberos_M.pdf: 3840052 bytes, checksum: b4860daa77b57af17db9c3c0885bb512 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: As coberturas metálicas são muito utilizadas em edificações que necessitam de grandes espaços internos livres e possuem um prazo de execução pequeno, como por exemplo, galpões comerciais, industriais e centros de armazenamento e distribuição. Dentre as suas partes constituintes, as terças são responsáveis por uma parcela considerável do peso total da cobertura. Neste trabalho foi desenvolvido um amplo estudo sobre os diversos tipos de terças metálicas utilizadas em estruturas metálicas de médio e grande porte, com vãos de até 40 metros, abordando as terças em perfil laminado e formado a frio, e as terças treliçadas em perfis abertos e tubulares. Foram realizados estudos aprofundados sobre o dimensionamento de terças em perfil laminado e formado a frio, com o desenvolvimento de um programa de verificação e dimensionamento para esses tipos de terças. Também foram realizados estudos sobre o dimensionamento de terças treliçadas planas, também conhecidas como joists, que já têm a sua utilização bastante difundida, e de terças treliçadas tubulares multiplanares, cuja utilização ainda é pequena se comparada com os demais tipos de terças. Com esses estudos, foram feitas análises comparativas para diversos vãos, com as ações comumente utilizadas em estruturas que possuem coberturas metálicas, possibilitando identificar qual o tipo de terça mais adequado para cada situação estudada. Uma análise dos custos das terças também foi realizada, permitindo verificar a viabilidade da utilização das terças treliçadas tubulares em coberturas metálicas, principalmente das terças treliçadas tubulares multiplanares, cuja aplicação ainda é pequena. / Abstract: Steel roof systems are widely used in buildings that require large free internal spaces and small execution times, such as commercial and industrial warehouses and storage and distribution centers. The purlins have a considerable contribution in the roof system total weight composition. In this work was developed a study on the different types of purlins for medium and large spans, up to 40 meters, analyzing the hot-rolled sections, cold-formed sections and trusses with open or hollow sections. Purlin design studies were conducted for hot-rolled and cold-formed sections, with a computational software development for these purlin types. The use of planar trusses as purlins, also called steel joists, is already well known, and its design was studied too, as well as the multi-planar tubular trusses, whose use is still small when compared with the other purlin types. With these studies, a comparative analysis was made for various spans, applying the loads commonly used in steel roof systems, allowing the investigation of the best purlin type for each proposed situation. An analysis of the purlin costs was also performed, allowing to study the feasibility of the tubular trusses use in steel roof systems, especially the multi-planar tubular trusses, whose application is still small. / Mestrado / Estruturas / Mestre em Engenharia Civil

Steel structure of the sports hall in the city of Olomouc. Specific design is chosen from three options. Plan dimensions of 45 x 60 m. Height 12.5 m. Structure is composed of rolled profiles and tubular steel. Two trusses girders are fixed by knuckle joints on pillars. Static check is performed using the program SCIA ENGINEER 2009 and the manual review.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Crashworthiness design is gaining more importance in the automotive industry due to high competition and tight safety norms. Further there is a need for light weight structures in the automotive design. Structural optimization in last two decades have been widely explored to improve existing designs or conceive new designs with better crashworthiness and reduced mass. Although many gradient based and heuristic methods for topology and topometry based crashworthiness design are available these days, most of them result in stiff structures that are suitable only for a set of vehicle components in which maximizing the energy absorption or minimizing the intrusion is the main concern. However, there are some other components in a vehicle structure that should have characteristics of both stiffness and flexibility. Moreover, the load paths within the structure and potential buckle modes also play an important role in efficient functioning of such components. For example, the front bumper, side frame rails, steering column, and occupant protection devices like the knee bolster should all exhibit controlled deformation and collapse behavior. This investigation introduces a methodology to design dynamically crushed thin-walled tubular structures for crashworthiness applications. Due to their low cost, high energy absorption efficiency, and capacity to withstand long strokes, thin-walled tubular structures are extensively used in the automotive industry. Tubular structures subjected to impact loading may undergo three modes of deformation: progressive crushing/buckling, dynamic plastic buckling, and global bending or Euler-type buckling. Of these, progressive buckling is the most desirable mode of collapse because it leads to a desirable deformation characteristic, low peak reaction force, and higher energy absorption efficiency. Progressive buckling is generally observed under pure axial loading; however, during an actual crash event, tubular structures are often subjected to oblique impact loads in which Euler-type buckling is the dominating mode of deformation. This undesired behavior severely reduces the energy absorption capability of the tubular structure. The design methodology presented in this paper relies on the ability of a compliant mechanism to transfer displacement and/or force from an input to desired output port locations. The suitable output port locations are utilized to enforce desired buckle zones, mitigating the natural Euler-type buckling effect. The problem addressed in this investigation is to find the thickness distribution of a thin-walled structure and the output port locations that maximizes the energy absorption while maintaining the peak reaction force at a prescribed limit. The underlying design for thickness distribution follows a uniform mutual potential energy density under a dynamic impact event. Nonlinear explicit finite element code LS-DYNA is used to simulate tubular structures under crash loading. Biologically inspired hybrid cellular automaton (HCA) method is used to drive the design process. Results are demonstrated on long straight and S-rail tubes subject to oblique loading, achieving progressive crushing in most cases.