i need to show the cracks in reinforced concrete due to direct tension test. Is it possible in abaqus?
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I understood that you want to trace the crack initiation and propagation in a tension test. You need to apply the load incrementally to the specimen to be tested, and use a stress or strain criteria for the cracks initiation. At each increment you have to calculate the unbalanced forces resulting from the changing stress state and the nonlinear solution, reapply these unbalanced forces and iterate until you get a convergence. You can use either:
i. stress convergence criteria,
ii. strain convergence criteria,
iii. force convergence criteria, or
iv. displacement convergence criteria.
This is to be continued until the specimen fail. A failure criteria also has to be set in the program, like a displacement, strain, stress, or you may get a singular stiffness matrix leading to unstable solution
Dear Thennavan M,
Please see the attached link
http://ravaji.com/xfem_crack_en/
Thanku Sir, Waleed E. El-Demerdash
Similarly i need to show cracks in reinforced tie element due to direct pullout test.
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