FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF PRESTRESSED AND REINFORCED-CONCRETE STRUCTURES

1991-10-01
ELMEZAINI, N
CITIPITIOGLU, E
A practical and powerful technique for the discrete representation of reinforcement in finite element analysis of prestressed and reinforced concrete structures is presented. Isoparametric quadratic and cubic finite elements with movable nodes are developed utilizing a correction technique for mapping distortion. Reinforcing bars and/or prestressing tendons are modeled independently of the concrete mesh. Perfect or no bond as well as any bond-slip model can easily be represented. The procedure is successfully tested for bonded and unbonded reinforcement.
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Citation Formats
N. ELMEZAINI and E. CITIPITIOGLU, “FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF PRESTRESSED AND REINFORCED-CONCRETE STRUCTURES,” JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING-ASCE, pp. 2851–2864, 1991, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/65092.