{"id":38256,"date":"2019-10-11T05:58:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T05:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/contact-between-steel-supports-and-concrete-beam\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T05:58:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T05:58:34","slug":"contact-between-steel-supports-and-concrete-beam","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/contact-between-steel-supports-and-concrete-beam\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact between steel supports and concrete beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am trying to simulate a reinforced simply supported concrete beam analysis on ansys and would like to know what should be the connections set between the loading and support plates during 3 or 4 point bending test?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Currently i have set all the 3 plates to Bonded + MPC but i am not sure if its correct as the bottom supports is not connected to the concrete can freely bend from there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>What should be the connection set between Loading plate and the supports?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/d2413d1b-c1dd-4abc-b25f-aaa2014c10c5\/144e18e6-9533-4435-b0d1-aae3005a4a1d_sad.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"Contact problem\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-38256","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["10434"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1022"],"_bbp_subscription":["241908"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["38256"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","158333","167425"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["6"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["95969"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["95969"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-10-13 07:25:33"]},"test":"vaibhavtaranekar"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/38256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/38256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}