In recent years significant effort in modeling of concrete and RC structures loaded under general conditions has been made. At the macroscopical level of the material modeling the main difficulty appears to be modeling of concrete. The 1nicroplane model for…
In recent years significant effort in modeling of concrete and RC structures loaded under general conditions has been made. At the macroscopical level of the material modeling the main difficulty appears to be modeling of concrete. The 1nicroplane model for concrete has been recently improved and extended for general use in 3D fracture analysis of structures. The model is implemented into the special purpose finite element code (MASA) and coupled with the nonlocal microcrack interaction approach. In the present paper the numerical results for beam-colmm1 connections made of nonnal and high strength concrete (NSC and HSC) with different amount of reinforcement are presented and discussed.