TECHNICAL NOTE FRAME STRESS CALCULATION Introduction This document introduces the stress point locations of frame sections, and how the software calculates axial stress, shear-stress, principal stress, and Von Mises stress at each stress point. The frame sections addressed in this document include I section, Built-Up I section, Hybrid I section, T section, Channel section, Pipe section, Box section, Circular section and Rectangular section. For the section designer section, the users are allowed to define their own stress points simply following the procedure as shown in the figure below. For the frame sections that are not addressed here, only the axial stress will be available at the centroid location and the four corners of the bounding box of the section.
Figure 1 User Defined Stress Point in Section Designer
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Stress Formulas
Axial Stress S11
The axial stress S11 is parallel to the section local axis 1 on the plane 1 (the plane with normal direction parallel to the section local axis 1):
In which
and
are the point coordinate in section local coordinate system
and the r is the material E ratio
Shear Stresses S12 and S13:
The shear stress S12 is parallel to the section local axis 2 on the plane 1 and S13 is parallel to the section local axis 3 on the plane 1. The shear stress is contributed from shear forces , and torsion . Shear stress due to shear force: Saint Venant Torsional stress: For a point i on the section, the shear stresses S12 and S13 can be represented as:
In which
and
will be introduced later.
Important Note: These shear stresses are calculated for the Built-Up I and Hybrid I sections assuming that the E ratio r = 1. Although the axial stress S11 accounts for different values of E, the shear stresses do not.
Principal Stresses Smax and Smin:
The principal stresses are calculated from Mohrs circle as:
In which (
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von Mises stress SVM
The general von Mises stress equation can be expressed as:
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Considering only stresses S11, S12 and S13, the above equation can be simplified as:
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Stress Point Locations and Factors for Frame Sections
