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14 - Civil and Construction Engineering
Imperial College London
Bearing failure in stainless steel bolted connections
Demonstrates for the first time that because design procedures for stainless steel bolted connections currently parallel those for carbon steel they are overly conservative. Results provide basis for new and logical definition of bearing failure based on strength, rather than deformation, that is also applicable to carbon steel. Improved formulation of existing Eurocode design rules permits conditions at ultimate and serviceability to be separated as well as providing more reliable predictions. Resulting modifications proposed by Eurocode Working Group for inclusion in first revision of the Stainless Steel Eurocode. Work featured in Keynotes at: IFASS3, Shanghai, 2009 and ICMS12, Poland, 2011.