STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER COMPUTATIONAL MODEL FOR ASSESSING THE BEARING CAPACITY OF STEEL STRUCTURES

Abstract

Computer models are increasingly being used in the field of structural engineering. A number of the applications are traditional. But there are also relatively new areas of application for which computer computational models are very promising from the standpoint of economic and technological development of the construction industry. These areas include the assessment of the behavior and values of the bearing capacity of structural elements and assemblies. The article is devoted to the description of the stages of development of a computer computational model for assessing the bearing capacity of a building structure. The stages of developing a computer model are conditionally divided into basic and auxiliary ones. The development of a computer model begins with the formulation of conceptual and mathematical models, followed by a possible revision of these models during verification and validation, and ends with a quantitative assessment of the uncertainty of the simulation results and an assessment of the calculated values of the bearing capacity.