I am modeling a brick masonry wall in ANSYS. The adjacent bricks (SOLID65 elements) are "joined" by surface to surface contact elements with certain normal and opening stiffness. I defined "Concrete Material" failure criteria for SOLID65 but the pushover curve drops suddenly after achieving the peak.
Is there any other way that I can achieve the Target curve like introduction of Fracture energy parameters for SOLID65, etc?
Himanshi Dewangan
Hello Muhammad Asad Naseer , have you considered defining the contact between the brick elements?
There you can introduce cohesive zone material model for contacts to define your fracture energies.
For more details on this you can see:
https://www.mm.bme.hu/~gyebro/files/ans_help_v182/ans_cmd/Hlp_C_TB.html#TBczmspec
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