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Hi, Which kind of law do you use for the confined concrete? As you know, in defining material characteristics, i have to input yelding stress and strain and ultimate stress and strain. In lots of article and book i haven't been able to find stress at fracture both for the confined and unconfined con...

the beams of the deck are connected with a zerolenght element above the column, between them, and also to the trasversal beam. But between this node and the upper node of the column i put the rigid link constraint with a free space to simulate the distance due to the trasversal beam. so i cannot use...

hi, i am studying a bridge before and after retrofitting and i need to model the elastomeric bearing. for the original model,i put a MPconstraint (rigid link constraint: beam) between the upper node of the column and the node of the deck (which is not the same) now i have to simulate the elastomeric...

[quote="silvia"]the concrete model with lateral-confienemtn effects is still under developement -- Prof. Mosalam at ucb is working on it. you might just want to increase the concrete strength in that region.[/quote] ......it was 2007...... A part from increasing the concrete strenght, are ...