Topic: available concrete and steel models

Dear Borek,

Happy new year! Wish you with oofem be fruitful in the new year!

I attempt to analyze a cantilever reinforced concrete shear wall with I-section. One way is to use PlaneStress2d with LayeredCS. But I am not sure about the material models for concrete and steel. It is certain to use Concrete2. However, I have difficulty in understanding all the parameters. Please help. Regarding steel models, I do not know whether there are models in oofem which could include yield and harding of the steel. Steel1 is too simple to use.

Another question is related to Concrete3 and smeared rotating crack model. It seems these model could only model the concrete in tension well. To model the concrete in compression as elastic may not be enough. Is there any way to model the concrete in compression more accurately?

Thank you for your help.

Best Regards,

Xuejian

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Re: available concrete and steel models

Dear Xuejian,

I am sorry, but I don't completely understand, what "cantilever reinforced concrete shear wall with I-section" means. If you could attach a simple figure, or describe the structure better, it will help me. I do understand the "cantilever reinforced wall" but I am confused with "I-section". Anyway, the layered cross section could not be combined with plane stress elements at the moment, it can be combined with beam, plate, and shell elements only. But in general, when solving a reinforced concrete wall, I would suggest to use plane stress elements to model the concrete only and add the reinforcement explicitly using bar elements. oofem has many features (hanging nodes, etc.) that allow to place such reinforcement arbitrarily into "independent concrete mesh" and to account for bond-slip behavior, reinforcement yielding, etc.

Concerning the model for concrete:
The choice of models for concrete capturing the nonlinear behavior in compression and tension is limited.
I would suggest to use either Mazars model (still isotropic damage, but tensile and compressive damage are taken into account) or much more general microplane model.
For the steel, you can use "j2mat" material model, implementing j2 plasticity with hardening. (Now I figured out that it is not documented!).
The corresponding record is:

j2mat #  E # n # Ry #  tAlpha # d # ihm #

where E - Young modulus,
n - Poisson ratio,
Ry - yield stress,
tAlpha - dilatation coeff.
d - density
ihm - hardening moduli - hardening is linear aftre reaching yield stress.


Borek

Re: available concrete and steel models

Dear Borek,

Yeah, it is not clear enough without some detailed illustrations of the structures I try to analyze. I have attached an image of overview and another one for cross section. Please take a look at it and give me some suggestions. As you suggest, I could use plane stress elements to model concrete and add reinforcement separately. But I am still not sure which concrete material model I should use. I think I care more about the concrete compression instead of tension. Before using the complicated 3d model, I would like to create a simplifed model and get some results first. Please help.

Xuejian

Re: available concrete and steel models

This is the overview image.