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Hello,

I am trying to model a reinforced concrete beam in ANSYS 11. This software is new to me and I am having some problem in defining the reinforcement using the software. I have found some of the similar work in ANSYS have used SOLID 65 for concrete and LINK 8 for reinforcement. But I don't know how to input the link element as reinforcement. Since I am just starting to use ANSYS, can somebody please help me by providing some of the basic steps to model a reinforced concrete beam?  

Thanks. 

Dear all,

       I would like to ask you how is it possible to import into Abaqus from Matlab a plot for the geometry of my specimen.How should I save my workspace and what changes should I make to the file to be an input file for Abaqus?

Regards,

          Panos

Dear All,

I am am using share node cohesive element in axisymmetric analysis. I want to use friction between two joined blocks when cohesive elements break. I tried this with using general contact definition in Abaqus 6.8. To do so, I am defining element based surface but while running the simulation the abaqus gives following error:

***ERROR: *CONTACT currently does not support the use of 2D surfaces.

 Can anyone help to find out what can be wrong with my surface definition.

With regards and best wishes,

Prabhat

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