cvmiculas / abqtcphd

an Abaqus RSG plug-in for effortless creation of tubular columns with socket faces

abqTCphd: an Abaqus RSG plug-in for effortless creation of tubular columns with socket faces

Intro

Welcome to the abqTCphd plug-in repository! This plug-in was designed to facilitate the creation of FEM models of a tubular column with rounded corners and socket faces. These models were used to study the behavior of the innovative plug-and-play joint's system developed within the INNO3DJOINTS project, supported by the Research Fund for Coal and Steel under grant agreement No. 749959: "Innovative 3D joints for robust and economical hybrid tubular construction".

The plug-in was created as part of the Ph.D. thesis titled "INNOVATIVE PLUG-AND-PLAY JOINTS FOR HYBRID TUBULAR CONSTRUCTIONS, authored by Cristian V. Miculaș ([email protected]) and supervised by Ricardo Joel Teixeira Costa ([email protected]) and Luís Alberto Proença Simões da Silva ([email protected]). The work was developed at the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (www.isise.net), Coimbra Branch, within the University of Coimbra, Portugal (www.uc.pt).

The research leading to this plug-in was made possible by funding from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) under grant agreement SFRH/BD/138151/2018 attributed to the author.

Thank you for using this plug-in. We hope it will be helpful for your research. Also, feel free to submit changes and remember to cite the work.

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Video Tutorials (Youtube)

• "abqTCphd: an Abaqus Plug-in to "Create Tubular Columns with Socket Faces" #1 download & installation": https://youtu.be/LkeMnk1fEeo
• "abqTCphd: an Abaqus Plug-in to "Create Tubular Columns with Socket Faces" #2 model generation": https://youtu.be/XaNEqAroR1c

License

MIT License

References related to this plug-in:

• C.V. Miculaş, Innovative plug and play joints for hybrid tubular constructions (Ph.D. thesis), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2023, https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/110990

• C.V. Miculaş, R. J. Costa, L. S. da Silva, R. Simões, H. Craveiro, T. Tankova, 3D macro-element for innovative plug-and-play joints, J. Constructional Steel Research 214 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcsr.2023.108436

• C.V. Miculaş, R.J. Costa, L. Simões da Silva, R. Simões, H. Craveiro, T. Tankova, Macro-modelling of the three-dimensional interaction between the faces of a steel tubular column joint, in: F. Di Trapani, C. Demartino, G.C. Marano, G. Monti (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2022 Eurasian OpenSees Days, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2023, pp. 408–422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30125-4_37