Hello fellow engineers.
I'm modeling a building with resisting masonry walls, some of them with large tickness. The floors are in concrete (with precast beams), most of them with unidirectional behaviour.
I'm using them to apply floor loads and also to in some way connect the other elements. However, I don't want their flexure curvature to influence the behaviour of the masonry walls, since they are only supported in them (pinned), and so isn't a rigid connection. I'm using shell elements for both the walls and the floors.
Is there a way to implement a release in shells like the "Assign-Frame-Releases/Partial Fixity" regarding frame elements? I was thinking of creating a boundary with small shell elements in the slab, in which I would greatly reduce bending stiffness. Is there any other way to do this that you know of?
Thanks in advance for your help.
I'm modeling a building with resisting masonry walls, some of them with large tickness. The floors are in concrete (with precast beams), most of them with unidirectional behaviour.
I'm using them to apply floor loads and also to in some way connect the other elements. However, I don't want their flexure curvature to influence the behaviour of the masonry walls, since they are only supported in them (pinned), and so isn't a rigid connection. I'm using shell elements for both the walls and the floors.
Is there a way to implement a release in shells like the "Assign-Frame-Releases/Partial Fixity" regarding frame elements? I was thinking of creating a boundary with small shell elements in the slab, in which I would greatly reduce bending stiffness. Is there any other way to do this that you know of?
Thanks in advance for your help.