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Shear-Bending-Torsion Interaction in Structural Concrete Members: A Nonlinear Coupled Sectional Approach

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Inclined cracks that take place in reinforced concrete elements due to tangential internal forces, such as shear and torsion, produce a non-isotropic response on the structure in the post-cracked regime and up to failure, also known as crack-induced-anisotropy. The result is that all six internal forces acting in a cross-section are generally coupled.

A generalized beam formulation for the nonlinear coupled analysis of non-isotropic elements under six internal forces is presented. The theory is based on a cross-section analysis approach with both warping and distortion capabilities, which were proved necessary to correctly handle the problem with frame element analysis.

In this paper, the non-linear mechanical aspects of cracked concrete structures under tangential forces are summarized. A state of the art review of beam formulations for the non-linear analysis of concrete structures is presented, and the approaches followed to account for the interaction of shear and torsion forces are discussed. After presenting the proposed formulation, its capabilities are shown by means of an application example of a cross section under coupled bending-shear and torsion, finally main conclusions are drawn.

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Bairan Garcia, J.M., Mari Bernat, A.R. Shear-Bending-Torsion Interaction in Structural Concrete Members: A Nonlinear Coupled Sectional Approach. Arch Computat Methods Eng 14, 249–278 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-007-9007-5

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