Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

Congratulations IDS on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

How to calculate a failure load

Thread starter Victor75
Start date Jan 8, 2008

Status: Not open for further replies.

Jan 8, 2008

Victor75

Industrial

First of all, excuse my english- Im spanish.
Im a novice user of Abaqus CAE, and I need help.
Im making a virtual 3D model of a masonry wall (bricks and mortar). I want to calculate how far I can load the wall before it fails (a compressive load on top of the wall, for instance), but I dont know how to do it. I am using a Mohr-Coulomb failure criterium.
Any suggestions?