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Parallel Material

This command is used to construct a parallel material object made up of an arbitrary number of previously-constructed UniaxialMaterial objects.

uniaxialMaterial Parallel $matTag $tag1 $tag2 ...

$matTag

unique material object integer tag

$tag1 $tag2 ...

identification of materials making up the material model

The parallel material is represented graphically:

Parallel Material

In a parallel model, strains are equal and stresses and stiffnesses are additive:Parallel Material Relationship

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