Dear all,
I just use ANSYS to model brick masonry. I use solid65 for modeling brick masonry to define crack with smeared crack model but I have some problems:
1. The solid65 is only for isotropic, beside brick masonry exbihits as orthotropic. Could you introduce me what element can model brick masonry with orthotropic behaviour to define smeared crack?
2. When I solve, sometimes the solution is unconvergence and sometimes is convergence. In two case I only change load with small value. Please help me how to control convergence solution.
3. Could you help me how to define the load that causes initial crack in structures?
Thank you,
Linh