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<t>Hi,<br/>
I'm working on my dissertation, and I get a little bit confused about the approach used by the software.<br/>
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By reading on the net, I found out that in that aproach, the section is divided in the two directions, so we have a mesh of fibres in each section.<br/>
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But my ...

Hi Romain,

Thanks for your answer, it's helping me a lot.

Cheers,
Ayoub

Hi,

I had the same question as zedzed.

So cracked concrete reacts like a concrete with no tensile capacity?
How does the software evaluate the cracks? and what are the effects on the algorithm ?

Thanks for your help
Cheers,
Ayoub

Hey everybody
Can I have more explanation about evaluating the confinement factor in the con_cc using the Mander et al. [1989]
Thank you