Marcelo Pitanga

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How can I get the fracture energy for brittle materials that has no softening curve post-peak for finite element analysis?

Dear colleagues, I´m working with smeared crack models for brittle materials. The fracture energy is an input parameter for a nonlinear analysis by the finite element method. Nevertheless, I...

10 October 2014 3,311 7 View

Which constitutive model is most appropriate for analysis of the interface between concrete and wall on masonry infilled reinforced concrete frames?

I am using DIANA and the program has some constitutive models like friction and crush-shear-crack. The last one has a lot of input to feed the model. I have read many papers about it but I am not...

06 June 2014 971 8 View