THE MODEL OF THE "INTERACTIVE PLASTIC HINGE"

Abstract

Instead of the plastic hinge the "interactive hinge" and "zone" have been introduced for a mounting base constructed from plates which are of a much higher degree of freedom than the previous ones as they also embrace the effects of strain hardening of the steeel ma- terial, of the residual deformation, as well as of the plate buckling bringing about the "descend- ing" characteristics. The traditional plastic hinge is only suitable to take the rigid and ideally plastic state from among the stability features into account.