DYNAMIC FAILURE OF STRUCTURES WITH STRUCTURAL INSTABILITY

The objective of this paper is to discuss analytically the mechanism of dynamic failure of SDOF systems with structural instability. Furthermore, the effects of natural frequency, static load, viscous damping, and magnitude and type of dynamic load on the displacement response and the various energy quantities are also numerically investigated.As a result, it is revealed that the effective input energy is the most important response parameter which determines the dynamic ultimate state.