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Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Concrete Structures

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ments normal to the crack plane. Using the cracking approach<br />

followed here, the stiffness related to these two displacement<br />

fields would be identical, but in reality much less stiffness<br />

would be related tc shear parallel to the crack plane than to<br />

shear normal to the crack plane.<br />

Terminating this section, attention should be drawn to a new<br />

cracking concept proposed very recently by Bazant and Gamborova<br />

(1979,a,b) and termed the "rough crack approach". This procedure<br />

evades r.uch <strong>of</strong> the drawbacks <strong>of</strong> the method adopted here and encompasses<br />

apparently most <strong>of</strong> the essential features <strong>of</strong> cracking.<br />

4.3. Reinforcement elements<br />

This section deals with the finite element formulation <strong>of</strong> the<br />

three types <strong>of</strong> axisymmetric reinforcement elements shown in<br />

fig. 1, namely, tangential reinforcement where the reinforcement<br />

bars are located circumferentially, RZ-reinforcement where the<br />

bars are located in the RZ-plane and ^embran reinforcement with<br />

dimensions both in the circumferential direction and in the RZplane.<br />

It is to be emphazised that arbitrarily located reinforce-<br />

Z<br />

• Tangential bars<br />

Z<br />

f Bars in RZ-plane<br />

I -R '• -R<br />

Membrane<br />

Fig. 4.3-1: Axisymmetric reinforcement elements

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