Abstract

The interaction surfaces in stress resultants can be of great use in the structural analysis processes, but their obtaining for plane or space frames, generally, is in combined efforts of bending moments and normal. The literature presents the surfaces in plane, quadric, complex or mixed forms for nonlinear analysis of structures that have the problems of local and global instability in the executing. The multiple linear regression model is a method that permit obtain interaction surfaces in the stress resultants from 3D solid element analysis. The plane and space frames elastoplastic analysis using these surfaces facilitate the structural analysis processes for the execution of projects with better structural safety. In this work, the approach will be for metallic structures with stress resultants surfaces obtained by Timoshenko 3D beams damage model non-linear analysis.