{"id":406752,"date":"2025-01-23T09:26:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T09:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/softening-issues-in-reinforced-concrete\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T09:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T09:26:01","slug":"softening-issues-in-reinforced-concrete","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/softening-issues-in-reinforced-concrete\/","title":{"rendered":"Softening Issues in Reinforced Concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Good morning everyone,&lt;br&gt;I am working on a beam-column joint in reinforced concrete using ANSYS with a nonlinear concrete model. I am following the example provided in the ANSYS manual, &#8220;Chapter 54: Reinforced Concrete Joint Analysis,&#8221; where a force-displacement graph is shown, highlighting both the <em>hardening<\/em> and <em>softening<\/em> phases.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My goal is to achieve a similar result for my specimen. However, I am unable to reproduce the <em>softening<\/em> phase, even though I have used the same settings as described in the example.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Could anyone provide some advice? I&rsquo;m attaching my results: the blue curve represents the experimental data.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much in advance!&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/23-01-2025-1737624213-mceclip0.png\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-406752","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27815"],"_bbp_topic_id":["406752"],"_bbp_subscription":["485535","99"],"_bbp_author_ip":["137.121.85.14"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["407730"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["407730"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-01-30 12:24:29"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["485535","99"],"_btv_view_count":["416"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"]},"test":"giorgio-pedrettiuniv-eiffel-fr"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/406752","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\/406752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}