ABSTRACT
The general approach for assessment of the moment to curvature relationship used in IACS prescribed incremental-iterative method is similar to the one originally proposed by well known and widely spread Smith’s method (Smith 1977) and will not be further discussed here. Modifications of the basic method are introduced in effort to enable inclusion of the effects disregarded by the basic method and thus improve the overall accuracy of the analysis. Influence of the shear stress and deck efficiency is incorporated into basic method as illustrated by the Figure 2, which represents general flowchart of the proposed method.
