ABSTRACT
Our objective in this paper is the establishment of an appropriate numerical modeling for steel frames with concrete slabs in order to predict the behavior of the full-sized damped steel building specimen in future. Based on various achievements obtained in the past researches, the useful models for materials and connection conditions are selected and applied to components. In this paper, we use shell elements for steel members of wide flange beams and concrete slabs since we also need to estimate values of local stresses and the locally yielding behavior at the above project. The concept of the present modeling, however, is applicable for numerical analyses using beam elements. Finally we show some numerical examples to verify our modeling. Our numerical results are compared with the past experimental ones. The numerical results are computed with the nonlinear finite element analysis program which has been developed at Motoyui laboratory.
