Reducing embodied carbon with material optimization in structural engineering practice: Perceived barriers and opportunities

MSI Smith, D Fang, C Mueller, JV Carstensen - Journal of Building …, 2024 - Elsevier
Structural engineers play an essential role in reducing embodied carbon emissions in
buildings, which contribute significantly to global carbon emissions. In this work, 39 …

Estimation of optimum design of structural systems via machine learning

G Bekdaş, M Yücel, SM Nigdeli - Frontiers of Structural and Civil …, 2021 - Springer
Three different structural engineering designs were investigated to determine optimum
design variables, and then to estimate design parameters and the main objective function of …

Experimental and numerical evaluation of inelastic lateral-torsional buckling of I-section cantilevers

AL Demirhan, HE Eroğlu, EO Mutlu, T Yılmaz… - Journal of Constructional …, 2020 - Elsevier
A primary failure mode for thin-walled steel members is lateral-torsional buckling (LTB), in
which steel cantilever beams experience nonuniform twisting and buckling about their weak …

Experimental and numerical investigation of lateral torsional buckling behavior and capacity of welded Q460 beams

L Kang, L Meng, Y Lin - Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Compared to normal strength steel (NSS), high strength steel (HSS) has many advantages,
such as high yield strength, high tensile strength, and high structural reliability. Recently …

Exact stiffness matrices for lateral–torsional buckling of doubly symmetric tapered beams with axially varying material properties

M Soltani, B Asgarian - Iranian Journal of Science and Technology …, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, a finite element model is developed for lateral–torsional stability analysis of
axially functionally graded beams with tapered bi-symmetric I-section subjected to various …

Rapid evaluation of lateral-torsional buckling of European standard I-section cantilevers

T Yılmaz - Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Lateral-torsional buckling (LTB) is the primary failure mode for thin-walled steel members
where the cantilever beams experience nonuniform twisting and buckling about their weak …

Optimal design of I-section beam-columns with stress, non-linear deflection and stability constraints

H Ozbasaran - Engineering Structures, 2018 - Elsevier
The standard hot-rolled sections with various shapes are used to construct the skeletal
structural system of the steel civil engineering structures. The conventional design rules …

An experience based artificial neural network in the design optimization of steel frames

M Jahjouh - Engineering Research Express, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The design of steel frames is an iterative process relying on the experience and decisions of
the designer to achieve economical and safe designs. With recent advances in artificial …

Optimal configuration of tapered steel gable frames based on total installed costs using the Enhanced Crystal Structure Algorithm

A Salama, AA Farag, A Eraky, R Samir - Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Steel gable frames are the structural system of choice for industrial buildings and
warehouses. As the frame span length and column height increase, prismatic members …

Convergence of the Rayleigh–Ritz Method for buckling analysis of arbitrarily configured I-section beam–columns

H Ozbasaran - Archive of Applied Mechanics, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Design of the slender members requires calculation of buckling loads in addition to
stress and deflection demand/capacity ratios. The Rayleigh–Ritz Method, which allows one …