Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Concrete Structures
Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Concrete Structures
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