Seismic behavior of RC exterior wide beam-column joints in Abaqus

In this tutorial, the Seismic behavior of RC exterior wide beam-column joints in Abaqus has been simulated. The concrete beam and column are modeled as three-dimensional solid parts. The steel bars and strips are modeled as three-dimensional wire parts. You can see a figure of the assembled parts below

Reinforced concrete (RC) structures with wide and shallow beams provide different advantages and needs from construction and architectural points of view. A wide beam system may reduce the amount of formwork through repetition and then the construction cost can be greatly reduced and the construction works can be simplified. Furthermore, smaller story height can be achieved from a wide beam system due to shallow beam depths. The Concrete Damaged Plasticity(CDP) is used to define beam-column behavior under cyclic loading. The model is a continuum, plasticity-based, damage model for concrete. It assumes that the main two failure mechanisms are tensile cracking and compressive crushing of the concrete material. The elastic-plastic material data is selected for the steel reinforcements. The general static step with some changes on the convergence model is selected. The steel reinforcements are embedded inside the concrete beam-column system. The proper load and boundary are assigned to the system. The mesh should be fine to obtain correct results

After the simulation, all results such as stress, plastic strain, displacement, force-displacement diagram, and … are available. You can see some figures for the results below

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