midas FEA NX: Simulate Concrete Cracking and Cracked Section Behaviors Using Various Approaches

In this MIDAS Intro Session, our MIDAS engineer introduced approaches to simulate cracked RC sections based on AASHTO LRFD/ACI codes, the fundamental material models to simulate concrete nonlinearity, and the approaches to visualize concrete cracks in the simulation tools.

• Overview of concrete cracking behavior
• The basic assumptions of concrete crack calculations in AASHTO/ACI codes
• Simulating the effective flexural stiffness for cracked concrete walls using AASHTO/ACI codes
• Use the nonlinear concrete material property to explicitly simulate concrete cracking
• Concrete cracking direction, status, and width visualization.

Presentation Slides

For more questions, you can email JC at jsun@midasoft.com