International Journal for Computational Civil and Structural Engineering

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2005, Volume1

Andre Haufe
DYNAmore GmbH, Engineering Consultants

Horst Menrath
Menrath & Jaenke, Engineering Consultants

Ekkerhard Ramm, Professor
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Baustatik, Institute of Structural Mechanics, Pfaffenwaldring 7, D70550 Stuttgart, Germany

A layered shell formulation allowing us to apply three-dimensional material laws within the different layers is described. The formulation is combined with a rate-independent plasticity constitutive model for plain and reinforced concrete. A fracture energy regularization in the softening branch is used in the constitutive law of concrete. The reinforcement is described as a smeared layer within the shell-discretization representing also the effects from tension stiffening if necessary. Several examples demonstrate the applicability of the proposed model.

DOI: 10.1615/IntJCompCivStructEng.v1.i1.50 Download article, 43-58 pages

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