Publications de Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa

A Multiaxial Plasticity Model with Softening for Simulating Inelastic Cyclic Local Buckling in Steel Beam Columns Using Fiber Elements

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Diego Isidoro Heredia Rosa, Dimitrios Lignos

This paper proposes a new effective multiaxial plasticity model to simulate inelastic cyclic buckling in steel frame members. The proposed constitutive formulation is expressed within the framework of rate-independent metal plasticity and replicates the pr ...

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)2025

Simulating Interactive Buckling in Steel Members Using a Torsional Fiber Element Integrated with a Multiaxial Local Buckling Constitutive Model

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Diego Isidoro Heredia Rosa, Dimitrios Lignos

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)2025

Digital-Image-Correlation for Simulating Cyclic Local Buckling in Steel Beams

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Selimcan Ozden

Nonlinear continuum finite element (CFE) analyses rely on accurate multiaxial constitutive law formulations along with reliable imperfection patterns for simulating nonlinear geometric instabilities in steel members under mechanical loading. Validations of ...

Wiley2023

Uniaxial Cyclic and Tensile Tests on Structural Metallic Materials

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Selimcan Ozden

Experimental data is imperative to characterize the behavior of materials used in structural analysis models. The aim of this data paper is to establish a database of material-scale uniaxial experiments, primarily conducted at EPFL, to assist with simulati ...

ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2023

Database of Residual Stress Measurements on Hot-rolled Wide Flange Steel Cross Sections

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Andronikos Skiadopoulos

Data_info.csv: Database of 'Residual Stress Measurements on Hot-rolled Wide Flange Steel Cross Sections' including cross-sectional and material characteristics as well as information relevant to ploting the residual stress distributions. Distributions.zip: ...

Zenodo2023

Proposed residual stress model for hot‐rolled wide flange steel cross sections

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Andronikos Skiadopoulos

Residual stresses in hot-rolled wide flange steel cross sections may lead to premature yielding, accelerated corrosion and brittle fracture of steel members. The above phenomena lead to a loss of a steel member's stiffness and resistance under mechanical l ...

Ernst & Sohn2023

Dissipative Embedded Column Bases for Enhanced Seismic Performance of Steel Moment Resisting Frames

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Hiroyuki Inamasu

This paper presents an innovative design concept for embedded column base (ECB) connections. The developed ECB connection achieves a non-degrading hysteretic response. In the proposed ECB connections, the dissipative zone is shifted into the embedded porti ...

EEME2023

A Displacement-Based Fiber Element to Simulate Interactive Lateral Torsional and Local Buckling in Steel Members

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Diego Isidoro Heredia Rosa, Dimitrios Lignos

Collapse in steel structures is often controlled by loss of load carrying capacity of steel columns due to interactive buckling, which involves interactions between local and global (i.e., lateral and lateral torsional) buckling. Commonly used concentrated ...

ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2023

Experiments and proposed model for residual stresses in hot-rolled wide flange shapes

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Andronikos Skiadopoulos

This paper proposes a new residual stress model for hot-rolled wide flange steel cross sections. For this purpose, a dataset of 85 residual stress measurements is first assembled. The dataset is comprised of prior measurements available in the literature t ...

2023

Experimental Evaluation and Modeling of Residual Stress Distributions for Hot-Rolled Wide Flange Steel Members

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Andronikos Skiadopoulos

Local and member instability modes in structural steel members are influenced by initial geometric imperfections and residual stresses among other parameters. The robustness of stability-related design provisions and finite element modeling procedures of s ...

2023

Warping-Inclusive Kinematic Coupling in Mixed-Dimension Macro Models for Steel Wide Flange Beam Columns

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Alexander Riley Hartloper

A warping-inclusive kinematic coupling method to be used in finite-element analysis of members featuring wide-flange cross sections is proposed in this paper. This coupling method is used in mixed-dimension macromodels that combine continuum and beam-colum ...

2022

Development and Experimental Validation of Dissipative Embedded Column Base Connections for Enhanced Seismic Performance of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Hiroyuki Inamasu

This paper proposes a novel embedded column base (ECB) connection that defies the current paradigm in capacity-designed steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs) where column bases have been traditionally considered as nondissipative. In the proposed concept, a ...

2022

Best-fit constraint equations for coupling mixed-dimension simulation models with wide flange cross sections

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Alexander Riley Hartloper

A new mixed-dimension coupling method is formulated for members with (bi-symmetric) wide flange cross sections based on the idea of least squares transformations between two sets of point clouds. This coupling method imposes the minimum number of constrain ...

ELSEVIER2022

Development of dissipative embedded columns base connections for mitigating column axial shortening

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Hiroyuki Inamasu

This paper proposes an innovative design concept for embedded column base (ECB) connections featuring wide flange steel columns. The developed ECB connection achieves a non-degrading hysteretic response up to lateral drift demands associated with low proba ...

Springer Nature2022

Cyclic metal plasticity model parameters with limited information: a constrained optimization approach

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Alexander Riley Hartloper

Tensile test data for structural steels are ubiquitous. Yet, the information monotonic loading provides with respect to the material's characteristics is limited. Notably, features of inelastic response to cyclic loading, such as the Bauschinger eect, can ...

2021

Anchor-yield exposed column bases for minimizing residual deformations in seismic-resistant steel moment frames

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos, Hiroyuki Inamasu

This paper explores the concept of dissipative exposed column base connections by means of anchor rod yielding. This concept aims at enhancing the seismic performance of low-rise steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs). A mechanics-based model is proposed tha ...

2021

Constitutive Modeling of Structural Steels: Nonlinear Isotropic/Kinematic Hardening Material Model and Its Calibration

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos

Numerical models of structural components that deteriorate primarily due to geometric instabilities under multiaxis cyclic loading are sensitive to both the assumed geometric imperfections and the nonlinear material model assumptions. Therefore, the accura ...

2021

Experimental behavior of iron-based shape memory alloys under cyclic loading histories

Elyas Ghafoori, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Diego Isidoro Heredia Rosa, Masoud Motavalli, Dimitrios Lignos, Alexander Riley Hartloper

The present paper investigates the behavior of iron-based shape memory alloys (Fe-SMAs) subjected to cyclic inelastic straining by means of uniaxial coupon experiments. The tests feature round bar coupons subjected to a broad range of uniaxial cyclic strai ...

2021

Consistency in Solving the Inverse Problem of the Voce-Chaboche Constitutive Model for Plastic Straining

Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Dimitrios Lignos

This paper focuses on an inverse problem involving a commonly used material model in structural steel applications—the Voce-Chaboche model. In particular, the paper proposes an approach focused on obtaining a consistent set of material parameters that accu ...

2020

Multiaxial ultra low cycle fatigue in welded high strength steel structural components

Alain Nussbaumer, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa

Extreme events often subject regions of structural steel components to large inelastic strains. In conditions such as earthquakes, exceptional winds gusts or tides the loading scenario is cyclical, variable amplitude and frequently multiaxial in nature, an ...

2019