Marcin Kujawa

Local buckling of thin-walled channel member flange made of aluminum alloy

The paper deals with local stability of the thin-walled compressed flange of channel columns and beams made of aluminum alloy. The aim of paper is to find critical stress of local buckling of the flange member taking into account the web-flange interaction in linear and nonlinear elastic range of the member material. The governing differential equation of the problem is derived with aid of the principle of stationary total potential energy. The equation solution leads to the critical buckling stress and assessment of the number of half-waves in linear elastic range of the member material. Taking into account these results the analytical formula of the critical buckling stress in nonlinear elastic range is established using the tangent modulus theory and the Ramberg-Osgood stress-strain relationship. Finally the analytical results for simply supported members are compared with the FEM solutions and good agreement is observed.

Dynamic research of masonry vault in a technical scale

The paper presents preliminary results of dynamic tests of the masonry barrel vault in a technical scale. Experimental studies are intended to identify material properties of homogenized masonry vaults under dynamic loads. The aim of the work is to create numerical models to analyse vault’s dynamic response to dynamic loads in a simplest and accurate way. The process of building the vault in a technical scale is presented in the paper. Furthermore a excitation of vibrations with an electrodynamic modal exciter placed on the vault, controlled by an arbitrary waveform function generator, is discussed. Finally paper presents trends in the research for homogenization algorithm enabling dynamic analysis of masonry vaults.Experimental results were compared with outcomes of so-called macromodels (macromodel of a brick masonry is a model in which masonry, i.e. a medium consisting of two different fractions – bricks and mortar, is represented by a homogenized, uniformed, material). Homogenization entail significan...

Strength parameters of masonry walls in modelling historic constructions

Abstract The paper presents the determination of the basic material properties of a historic brickwork. Experimental studies were used to identify the basic material properties of bricks. The mechanical properties of the masonry, as an orthotropic homogenized material, were calculated. Then, numerical simulations using the Finite Element Method (FEM) were performed to verify the experimental outcomes. Macromodels with element sizes of 40, 20, 10 and 5 mm, and a micromodel with an element size of 5 mm were applied. The results were compared with experimental data and results available in literature.