Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering;
Pusan National University;
Busan;
South Korea;
The Korea Ship and Offshore Research Institute(Lloyd’s Register Foundation Research Centre of Excellence);
Pusan National University;
Busan;
South Korea;
Department of Mechanical Engineering;
University College London;
London;
UK;
Ultimate compressive strength; Steel-stiffened plate structures; Nonuniform plate thickness; ANSYS finite element method; ALPS/SPINE incremental Galerkin method; ALPS/ULSAP analytical method;