Assessment of floor vibration using the OS-RMS90 method

To achieve flexibility with regard to space-arrangement and occupancy, multi-storey buildings require large span floor structures with a minimum of internal columns and walls. Modern materials and methods of construction are becoming more and more suitable to fulfill these requirements. It is common for the design of slender floor structures to...

A thermopiezomechanical finite rotation shell element

A finite rotation shell element is presented which can be used to analyse thermopiezomechanical phenomena when dealing with thin-walled smart structures. Initially, the underlying theory is explained in order to illustrate the simplifying assumptions that are eventually made. Several locking phenomena are avoided by deploying ANS and EAS...