UNIFIED ANALYTICAL METHOD OF GLIDING CABLES IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING - FROZEN-HEATED METHOD

摘要

This paper presents a new, efficient and unified structural analytical method for solving the internal forces and deformations of a structure with gliding cable elements. This method is called "the frozen-heated method" (FHM). With the gliding cable elements in engineering structures, it is difficult to obtain its mechanical behavior easily only by using traditional analytical method because of cable gliding during the loading process. It is the frozen-heated method that provides an efficient approach for analyzing this kind of structure. Several numerical examples are presented to verify its validity and efficiency.