How to make ENT material work?

ismailqeshta · Post by **ismailqeshta** » Thu Feb 07, 2019 5:43 am

Hi,

When I assign Elastic-no Tension (ENT) material in parallel with another material, I find that it does not work.

For example:
uniaxialMaterial Elastic 3 100.0
uniaxialMaterial ENT 4 0.00000001
uniaxialMaterial Parallel 1 3 4

The above would work in both tension and compression. It should not work in tension due to the existence of ENT.

It would be great if anyone can help me with this.

Thank you.