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Vassilis Papanikolaou edited this page Oct 30, 2016 · 11 revisions

#Features

###Materials

  • Standard Uniaxial Materials
    • Elastic
    • Elastic Perfectly Plastic
    • Elastic Perfectly Plastic with Gap
  • Uniaxial Steel Materials
    • Steel01
  • Uniaxial Concrete Materials
    • Concrete01 (zero tensile strength)
    • Concrete02 (linear tension softening)
    • Concrete06
  • Multidimensional (nD) Materials
    • Elastic Isotropic
    • Elastic Orthotropic
  • Section Force-Deformation Materials
    • Fiber
    • Plate Fiber
    • Elastic Membrane Plate

###Elements

  • ZeroLength Elements
  • Truss Elements
    • Truss
      • compatible with Elastic/Elastic Perfectly Plastic/Elastic Perfectly Plastic with Gap materials
      • use with 2D/2DOF or 3D/3DOF
    • Corotational Truss
      • compatible with Elastic/Elastic Perfectly Plastic/Elastic Perfectly Plastic with Gap materials
      • use with 2D/2DOF or 3D/3DOF
  • Beam-Column Elements
    • Elastic Beam-Column
      • compatible with nD Elastic Isotropic material
      • use with 2D/3DOF or 3D/6DOF
    • Elastic Timoshenko Beam-Column
      • compatible with nD Elastic Isotropic material
      • use with 2D/3DOF or 3D/6DOF
    • Force-Based Beam-Column
      • compatible with Section Force-Deformation Fiber material
      • use with 2D/3DOF or 3D/6DOF
  • Surface Elements
    • Triangular (Tri31)
      • compatible with all nD materials
      • use with 2D/2DOF
    • Quadrilaterals (Quad)
      • compatible with all nD materials
      • use with 2D/2DOF
    • Shell
      • compatible with all nD materials
      • use with 3D/6DOF
  • Solid Elements
    • Standard Brick Element (stdBrick)
      • compatible with all nD materials
      • use with 3D/3DOF

Note : In order to use more than one element type on the same model, all element types should share the same model dimensions (2D/3D) and degrees of freedom (2DOF/3DOF/6DOF), e.g. truss and brick elements.

###Restraints/Constraints

  • Restraints
    • Fix on nodes
    • Fix on lines
    • Fix on surface
  • Constraints
    • Body constraints (equalDOF) on nodes
    • Body constraints (equalDOF) on lines
    • Rigid diaphragm

###Loads

  • Forces
    • Point forces
    • Line forces
    • Line uniform forces

###Analysis Types

  • Eigenvalue (using point masses)
  • Linear Static
  • Nonlinear Static (Pushover)
    • Load control
    • Displacement control
    • Monotonic or Cyclic

Developed in the Lab of R/C and Masonry Structures, School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, by T. Kartalis-Kaounis, V.K. Protopapadakis and T. Papadopoulos, Dipl. Civil Engineers, under the coordination of V.K. Papanikolaou, Assistant Professor.

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