ANSYS 2020 Tutorial: Reinforced Concrete T-Joint

ANSYS Workbench V2020 R2 Tutorial for a Reinforced Concrete T-Joint using CPT215 Elements with Reinforcement type option in Mechanical.

**NOTE: You must use the same version of ANSYS 2020 R2. There are reports that newer versions of ANSYS no longer work with this tutorial.**

I demonstrate how to use the latest modeling technology to simulate a reinforced concrete T-joint using Ansys Workbench version 2020 R2. In this example The simulation results will be compared to that of actual experimental results.

This tutorial we will go over importing the geometry, setting boundary conditions where we will fix the column in place and apply a displacement of 80mm downwards at the end of the beam, and finally go over viewing the results which include the homogenized tension & compression damage by using APDL commands:

PLNSOL,MPDP,TOTA: Homogenized total damage (TOTA)
PLNSOL,MPDP,COMP: Homogenized tension damage (TENS)
PLNSOL,MPDP,TENS: Homogenized compression damage (COMP)
PLNSOL,MPDP,RW: Split weight factor (RW)

We will also be using CPT215 elements (Drucker-Prager Microplane Model) and the Reinforcement Type option within Mechanical to model the rebar. This is an improvement compared to my previous video which uses SOLID65 elements and REINF265 commands.

1. Geometry File Download: https://cutt.ly/AjsHRS3
2. APDL Commands Download: https://cutt.ly/IjsHW8c
3. Excel Chart Download: https://cutt.ly/AjsHESH

References:
1. Chalioris et al. "Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column joints with Crossed Inclined Bars Under Cyclic Deformations." Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. (2008)
2. Raasheduddin Ahmed et al. "A gradient-regularized coupled damage plasticity microplane model for concretelike materials". Ansys inc.