Concrete Cyclic Loading with Explicit Dynamic

- May 5, 2020 at 5:52 am
  
  rickywugunawan
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  Good day everyone,
  
  I am trying to simulate a beam-column joint which experiences cyclic loading just like the picture below.
  
  As I can't perform it on static structural successfully and I don't have experience in using APDL code, I decided to use Explicit Dynamic. It turns out I can get similar behaviour.
  
  My questions are,
  
  1. is it appropriate to simulate this kind of simulation on Explicit Dynamic? Because I read from a lot of paper and articles, Explicit Dynamic is suitable to simulate high impact, blast effect or high-velocity simulation (e.g.: Phone drop test, Plane Crash).
  
  2. On this simulation, I'd like to move the beam sideways, but because the concrete NL can't experience pull on the node, so I decided to add two pushing force on both sides, just like the experiment. Is it normal to do this? I can't find any literature about this so I'm a little bit unsure.
  
  Thank you for your time.
  
  Regards,
  
  Ricky