PSI - Issue 84

Anna Brunetti et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 84 (2026) 781–788

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Focusing on the most loaded beam, Model 1 proves to be the most conservative for verification purposes, exhibiting a midspan bending moment ratio greater than 1.

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Fig. 5. Comparison of normalized bending moments for a uniform distributed load on T1 for (a) CS1 and (b) CS2

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Fig. 6. Comparison of normalized bending moments for the ULS combination for (a) CS1 and (b) CS2