Abstract
In structural analysis it is often necessary to determine the geometrical properties of cross sectional areas. The location of the shear center is of greater importance for a thin-walled cross section.The purpose of this paper is the computation of the shear center of the arbitrary thin-walled cross sections using the finite element method. The coupling problem of shearing and torsional deformation of a thin-walled beams based on Saint Venant's theory is considered. This problem of coupled shearing and torsional deformation was analyzed using the finite element method in which the matrix of shear rigidity and torsional rigidity were determined. The shear center can be obtained determining the coordinate axes so as to eliminate the nondiagonal terms.
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