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How to model radial spring (multiple shear spring) in ABAQUS?

Thread starter hungngo
Start date Jul 10, 2014

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Jul 10, 2014

hungngo

Civil/Environmental

Hi everyone. I want to model the fasteners connecting a wood sheathing to a steel frame in Abaqus. I want to input the same force-displacement behavior for all translational directions in the plane of the sheathing (like a radial spring).

I was using spring element type Spring2 (nonlinear) but I could define behavior in only 2 translational directions in the sheathing plane (X and Z). This made my model overly stiff after the elastic range. I read about the RADIAL-THRUST connector element but it does not seem to be the one.

Do you have any suggestions? Your help would be very appreciated.