Natalie Stranghöner

TL;DR: In this article, the authors give explanations and worked examples to the design rules in Eurocode 3 that are influenced by the strength and toughness properties of the structural steels used, and give some comments to chapter 6 of EN 1998-1: “Design of structures for earthquake resistance, Part 1: General rules, seismic actions and rules for buildings”.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of high frequency hammer peening (HFHP) treatment on the fatigue behavior of welded ultra high strength steels with yield strengths of 960 MPa and higher was investigated.

TL;DR: This new orthotropic model enables realistic simulations of textile membranes in a fully geometrically nonlinear setting, which does not require simplifications based on linearized strains, which are currently used as standard in engineering practice.

TL;DR: Different approaches of determining such simplified, fictitious elastic constants have been investigated in the present contribution, with m ainly two co nclusions: as mentioned in this paper, to have one set of elastic constants by means of which all types of structures under all different types of loading can be treated is a highly disputable objective, and the values of the determined elastic constants react quite sensitively on the underlying determination option, which should be defined by the users themselves.

TL;DR: This report provides background information in support of the implementation and development of a future Eurocode for the Structural Design of Tensile Membrane Structures, which will help to design and implement lightweight structures.