IACM/ECCOMAS Congress 2008

Friday, July 4th 10:30 - 12:30
Structural Stability I
Minisymposium organized by Herbert Mang and Zsolt Gaspar

Room: EXC2.2
MS083A

10:30 Application of the Splitting Lemma in the Stability Analysis (Keynote Lecture)
Zsolt Gaspar and Laszlo Oroszvary

11:00 Postbuckling Behaviors of Steel Trusses under Mechanical and Thermal Loads (Keynote Lecture)
Y. B. Yang and T. J. Lin

11:30 Buckling of a Spindle Shaped Tensairity Column under Compression: A Numerical–Experimental Study
Theofanis Plagianakos, Rolf Luchsinger and Rene Crettol

11:50 Generalized Eigenvalue Problem for Nonlinear Stability Analysis
Tomasz Sokol

12:10 Mechanics of Highly-Deformed Elastic Shells: Probing Localized and Extended Deformations using Computational Mechanics
Ashkan Vaziri

Friday, July 4th 14:00 - 16:00
Structural Stability II
Minisymposium organized by Herbert Mang and Zsolt Gaspar

Room: EXC2.2
MS083B

14:00 The Critical Left and Right Eigenvectors extracted from the LDU-Decomposed Non-Symmetric Jacobian Matrix
Fumio Fujii, Yuki Yamakawa and Hirohisa Noguchi

14:20 Elastic Postbuckling Analysis: How to recover Accurate Nonlinear Structural Models from the Linear Ones
Raffaele Casciaro, Giovanni Garcea and Antonio Madeo

14:40 Imperfection Sensitivity of Cylindrical Shells subject to Hoop Compression - Numerical Buckling Analyses Versus Experimental Results
Werner Schneider, Marco Gettel and Jerzy Ziolko

15:00 Direct Determination of Initial Imperfections: The most Unfavourable and most Favourable Initial Shape
Joze Korelc and Niko Kristanic

15:20 Some Stability and Post-Buckling Behaviour Problems of Thin-Walled Structures
Czesław Szymczak and Tomasz Szczęsny

15:40 Buckling Analysis of Rectangular Orthotropic Plate subjected to In-Plane Pure Bending
Alexander V. Lopatin and Evgeny V. Morozov

Friday, July 4th 16:30 - 18:30
Structural Stability III
Minisymposium organized by Herbert Mang and Zsolt Gaspar

Room: EXC2.2
MS083C

16:30 Stability and Sensitivity of Shell-Like Structures considering Imperfections and Contact
Karl Schweizerhof and Eduard Ewert

16:50 Buckling Problems of Mindlin Plates by Analytical Quadrilateral P-Elements
Jie Fan and Andrew Y.T. Leung

17:10 Geometrically Nonlinear 3D Beam Model based on Saint Venànt Rod Theory
Giovanni Garcea, Antonio Madeo, Giuseppe Zagari and Raffaele Casciaro

17:30 Impact and Failure Performance of Thin-Walled Lattice Structures
Hans Obrecht, Ulf Reinicke and Marcel Walkowiak

17:50 Fire-Induced Collapse Analyses of High-Rise Towers using ASI-Gauss Technique
Daigoro Isobe and Tomonobu Omuro

18:10 SCFJ – A Discrete Model for a Probabilistic Analysis of Continuous Welded Rail Stability and Appraisal of Temporary Train Speed Limits
Ungureanu Valentin-Vasile and Adam Dósa