function [y] = steelcol(xx) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % STEEL COLUMN FUNCTION % % Authors: Sonja Surjanovic, Simon Fraser University % Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser University % Questions/Comments: Please email Derek Bingham at dbingham@stat.sfu.ca. % % Copyright 2013. Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser University. % % THERE IS NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WE DO NOT ASSUME ANY LIABILITY % FOR THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE. If software is modified to produce % derivative works, such modified software should be clearly marked. % Additionally, this program is free software; you can redistribute it % and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as % published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2.0 of the License. % Accordingly, this program is distributed in the hope that it will be % useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty % of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU % General Public License for more details. % % For function details and reference information, see: % http://www.sfu.ca/~ssurjano/ % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % INPUT: % % xx = [Fs, P1, P2, P3, B, D, H, F0, E] % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Fs = xx(1); P1 = xx(2); P2 = xx(3); P3 = xx(4); B = xx(5); D = xx(6); H = xx(7); F0 = xx(8); E = xx(9); L = 7500; P = P1 + P2 + P3; Eb = (pi^2)*E*B*D*(H^2) / (2*(L^2)); term1 = 1 / (2*B*D); term2 = F0*Eb / (B*D*H*(Eb-P)); y = Fs - P*(term1 + term2); end