Reply To: Reinforced Concrete Beam

[ErKo]

Using reinforcement Model type is fine for rebar and the way to do it (no need to have shared nodes, or contacts).

Finally for a whole workflow and set up, see a tutroial I made some time ago:

https://innovationspace.ansys.com/forum/forums/topic/how-can-we-model-failure-in-reinforced-concrete-rc-slabs/