I need to develop a fracture model of an existing reinforced concrete wall which contains numerous cracks(the wall is about 50 yrs old). The main goal is to evaluate the reduced strength of the structure due to cracking, What I have is a linear static model that shows the stress distribution...
Here is a response from the the SAP2000 tech. support team:
The official documentation for concrete shell design implementation in SAP2000 is still under development and should be available soon. Meanwhile, here is some interim information on concrete shell design to keep you going.
The design...
I am looking to find a good quad mesh generation software for SAP. We have a geometry model of a very complicated museum building from a laser scanning company. The building is a concrete shell structure and we will model it as shell elements. Because SAP doesn't have a full automatic mesh...
