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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 69
COMPUTATIONAL CONCRETE STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
Edited by: Z. Bittnar and B.H.V. Topping
Paper II.1

Nonlinear Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Cylindrical Shells

A.E. Assan

Department of Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A.E. Assan, "Nonlinear Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Cylindrical Shells", in Z. Bittnar, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Computational Concrete Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 37-43, 2000. doi:10.4203/ccp.69.2.1
Abstract
In this paper, analysis of reinforced concrete cylindrical shells is performed using a strain-based finite element. The shell element employed is bidimensional, cylindrical circular and has four nodes and five nodal degrees of freedom. The nonlinearities due to concrete cracking and yielding and yielding of the steel are taken into account. The constitutive models for the materials employ the smeared cracking concept and a finite element layered approach. Concrete is modeled by a strain-induced orthotropic-elastic model under plane state of stress. A bilinear steel model is used and the stress reversal with Baushinger effect is included. Examples show the good accuracy provided by this analysis.

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