Avaliação de ligações entre perfis tubulares em aço submetidas a esforços de flexão.

Abstract

Seamless tubular sections are widely used in many countries, but in Brazil, the use of these profiles in construction is quite limited, being almost restricted to spatial trusses. Considering a new reality for the use of tubular profiles, this Dissertation presents an analysis of "T" joints with square hollow sections (SHS) for the chord and the brace based on the European standard, Eurocode 3, CIDECT Design Guide, NBR 16239:2013 and ISO 14346 through out a finite element model developed in ANSYS program. The main objective of the present investigation is to evaluate the influence of the bending moment over the joint global behavior. The physical and geometrical nonlinearities were incorporated into the models, in order to fully mobilize the joint global response. The nonlinearity of the material was considered by adopting the von Mises yield criteria with a material constitutive law with a multilinear stress versus strain curve associated to a elastic-plastic behavior with hardening. The geometric nonlinearity has been introduced into the model through Updated Lagrangian formulation. The numerical results were evaluated for studied joints in terms of the failure modes and stress distributions. The numerical results are evaluated for binding study on the modes of failure and the stress distribution. The analysis of the resistant moments obtained in comparison with the results of numerical model presented values for safety excessively calculated using equations sizing. A study for the correction equations scaling factors is proposed.