Elasto-plastic instability of single-layer reticulated shells under dynamic actions

This paper addresses the issue on dynamic collapse mechanism of single-layer reticulated shells subjected to harmonic load, sudden load and seismic load. The method for failure mechanism has reviewed the relationship between the response of the reticulated shell and the peak acceleration of dynamic action. Besides, the steel damage accumulation is considered in the method by compiling a user subroutine based on the computing program ABAQUS. An example is introduced to describe dynamic instability collapse resulting from geometric nonlinearity of the shell and the other example is presented to describe strength failure resulting from excessive development of plastic deformation, for it is discovered that the structure is not only to be prone to instability collapse in dynamic action. According to the responses of the single-layer reticulated shell under dynamic loads, this study discusses the relationship between the failure model and the corresponding dynamic load parameters. Then, the method for distinguishing failure modes is proposed based on the fuzzy synthetic evaluation theory and the structural responses of sufficient samples at the failure state. The technique feasible to be used to distinguish different failure modes of single-layer reticulated shells under different dynamic loads is validated.