Nonlinear finite element analysis of prestressed concrete members using ADINA

✍ Scribed by Makoto Kawakami; Tadahiko Ito

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 700 KB
• Volume: 81
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0045-7949
• DOI: 10.1016/s0045-7949(02)00486-8

✦ Synopsis

A prestressed concrete (PC) column and a precast segmental PC beam are analyzed using ADINA. Two dimensional finite element model is employed with material nonlinearities (concrete cracking/crushing and rebar plasticity) and geometrical nonlinearities (large displacement and contact/separation between the segments). The load-displacement relationship, the concrete cracking/crushing process, the load-strain relationship, and the gap opening/closing are in good agreement with those in the tests.