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Limit State Material

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Ken Elwood: http://www.civil.ubc.ca/faculty/KElwood/KElwood.html

This command is used to construct a uniaxial hysteretic material object with pinching of force and deformation, damage due to ductility and energy, and degraded unloading stiffness based on ductility. Failure of the material is defined by the associated limit curve. Reference Document: Modelling failures in existing reinforced concrete columns

uniaxialMaterial LimitState $matTag $s1p $e1p $s2p $e2p $s3p $e3p $s1n $e1n $s2n $e2n $s3n $e3n $pinchX $pinchY
$damage1 $damage2 $beta $curveTag $curveType.

$matTag

unique material object integer tag

$s1p

$e1p

stress and strain (or force & deformation) at first point of the envelope in the positive direction

$s2p

$e2p

stress and strain (or force & deformation) at second point of the envelope in the positive direction

$s3p

$e3p

stress and strain (or force & deformation) at third point of the envelope in the positive direction (optional)

$s1n

$e1n

stress and strain (or force & deformation) at first point of the envelope in the negative direction*

$s2n

$e2n

stress and strain (or force & deformation) at second point of the envelope in the negative direction*

$s3n

$e3n

stress and strain (or force & deformation) at third point of the envelope in the negative direction (optional)*

$pinchX

pinching factor for strain (or deformation) during reloading

$pinchY

pinching factor for stress (or force) during reloading

$damage1

damage due to ductility: D1(m-1)

$damage2

damage due to energy: D2(Ei/Eult)

$beta

power used to determine the degraded unloading stiffness based on ductility, m-b (optional, default=0.0)

$curveTag

an integer tag for the LimitCurve defining the limit surface

$curveType

an integer defining the type of LimitCurve (0 = no curve,
1 = axial curve, all other curves can be any other integer)

*NOTE: negative backbone points should be entered as negative numeric values

In This Chapter

Shear Limit Curve

Axial Limit Curve

Shear Limit Curve

Example Files for Limit State Material

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