Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations TugboatEng on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Tension stiffening

Status
Not open for further replies.
Pricilla

Pricilla

Civil/Environmental
Joined
Aug 8, 2006
Messages
4
Location
SE
Hi!

Is it possible to model concrete without using tension stiffening, using the concrete smeared cracking. I have a brittle material and when I try to use a small tension stiffening I get convergence problems.

Regards
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

abc123ali
  • Locked
  • Question Question
Error in calibration of results with experiment for tension test
Replies
7
Views
481
FEA way
FEA way
H
  • Locked
  • Question Question
Abaqus, using nonlinear spring to create tensionless soil.
Replies
1
Views
959
FEA way
FEA way
V
  • Locked
  • Question Question
Tensioned element and loads
Replies
2
Views
1K
valbe
V
amwc
  • Locked
  • Question Question
tension force
Replies
8
Views
205
FEA way
FEA way
Matte StrEng
  • Locked
  • Question Question
CDP model- How possible Tension region turns out to be compression under bending?
Replies
1
Views
112
FEA way
FEA way

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top