Avaliação de ligações K e T entre perfis estruturais tubulares circulares.

Abstract

The widespread adoption of hollow section structures, mainly due to the advantages associated with the structural and aesthetic behavior, led to an intense use in the countries of Europe, Southeast Asia, North America and Australia. Countries like Canada, England, Germany and Holland use these structures intensively and have a current industrialized production with an associated high level of technological development. Increasing the supply of such profiles, combined with recent investigations in this area, leads the Brazil to enter in this world stage. However, the Brazilian standards that governing the design of these profiles are not yet updated, especially the tubular joints design. Given this perspective, this work presents an analysis of connections such as "K" and " T" with circular hollow sections. A comparison between the analytical design formulations proposed by Eurocode 3 Part 1.8, 2nd edition of the guide design of tubular joints of the CIDECT, Brazilian standard PN 02.125.03-004 and limit deformation criteria was performed. For each of the joints types analyzed, a finite element model was developed in ANSYS program, later to be calibrated and validated with experimental and numerical results present in literature. The models physical and geometrical non-linearities have been incorporated in the model to mobilize the joint full load capacity. The material nonlinearity was considered by Von Mises criteria through stress versus strain bilinear constitutive law. The geometric non-linearity was introduced in the model by Lagrange Updated Formulation considering the expected large deformation to allow redistribution of load in the joint after the initial yielding. This work also proposes the modeling of a planar truss made of circular hollow section structures to establish a comparison between a single joint and the response of joint as a part of a full scale truss structure.