PLANE FRAMES

1.Analytical Model
2.Member Stiffness Relations in the Local Coordinate System
3.Coordinate Transformations
4.Member Stiffness Relations in the Global Coordinate System
5.Structure Stiffness Relations
6.Procedure for Analysis

1.ANALYTICAL MODEL
A plane frame is divided into members and joints so that:
(a)all of the members are straight prismatic,
(b)all the external reactions act only at the joints

Global and Local Coordinate Systems:

Actual Frame:-

Analytical Model Showing Global and Local

Coordinate Systems

Degrees of Freedom

Structure Coordinate Numbers

(NDOF =10, NR =5)

2.MEMBER STIFFNESS RELATIONS IN THE

LOCAL COORDINATE SYSTEM

Consider an arbitrary prismatic member m of the plane frame

Member Forces and Displacements

in the Local Coordinate System


and u denote the 61 member end-force and member end-displacement vectors,
Q
respectively, in the local coordinate system;
k represents the 6 6 member local stiffness matrix; and is the 6 1 member fixedend force vector in the local coordinate system.

Member Local Stiffness Matrix k

3. COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS

local forces and must be equal to the algebraic sums of the

components of the global forces and in the directions of the
local x and y axes, respectively; that is

4. Member Global Stiffness Matrix K