Patch Loading Resistance of Plated Girders-Ultimate and serviceability limit state-

• Main Author: Jonas Gozzi
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Luleå
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.628.7647; http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1544/2007/30/LTU-DT-0730-SE.pdf

IPREFACE After almost three years of work regarding constitutive models and mechanical behaviour of steel, which ended up in my Licentiate thesis, my supervisor Professor Ove Lagerqvist asked me if I could picture myself working with patch loading the next couple of years. Since I was rather tired of material modelling, which by the way isn't that related to the other research conducted at the division, I said yes without any doubts. If that was the right answer I still don't know but it clearly was inspiring to focus on something else, and further, it brought Ove closer to my research which has been a pleasure for me. Not to mention his invaluable knowledge in the field, his ideas and his inventive jokes. Thanks for these years! The change of research subject also involved the newly retired Professor Bernt Johansson in my project. I am sincerely grateful for your engagement, your ideas and your comments on the content in this thesis! However, non of this would have been possible without the financial support from the Research Fund for Coal and Steel, RFCS, who sponsored the project ComBri, “Competitive Steel and Composite Bridges by Improved Steel Plated Structures”, in which most of the work in this thesis was conducted. Further, also the Development Fund of the Swedish Construction Industry, SBUF, and Luleå University of Technology have contributed financially to this work. They are all hereby thankfully acknowledged. My professional collaboration with Dr. Anders Olsson ended with the Licentiate thesis but you stayed as a friend and sounding-board even afterwards. Thanks for careful reading of the manuscript and I look forward to late-night Dry Martinis on your terrace now that we are almost neighbours!