Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation General Mechanical How can I connect rebar and concrete ? Reply To: How can I connect rebar and concrete ?

Aurojyoti Prusty
Ansys Employee

Hi,

You can just add your steel rebars as line bodies and then use a reinforcement without any contact definition using the reinf264 elements.

You may refer the below link for more information.

Contact modeling for Steel rebars in Concrete using Ansys workbench

/forum/forums/topic/contact-modeling-for-steel-rebars-in-concrete-using-ansys-workbench/

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Aurojyoti