Damian Sokolowski1, Marcin Kamiński2, Michal Strakowski1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.99, No.3, pp. 209-231, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.099.209
Abstract The main issue in this paper is to present stochastic analysis of the steel plate girder with the corrugated web subjected to Gaussian random fluctuations in its web thickness. Such an analysis is carried out using the Stochastic Finite Element Method based on the generalized stochastic perturbation technique and discretization of structure with the quadrilateral 4-noded shell finite elements. It is numerically implemented using the FEM system ABAQUS and the symbolic algebra system MAPLE, where all the probabilistic procedures are programmed. We compare the perturbation-based results with these obtained from traditional Monte-Carlo simulation and, separately, More >