Parallel Material
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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 ... <-factors $fact1 $fact2 ...> |
$matTag | integer tag identifying material |
$tag1 $tag2 ... | identification tags of materials making up the material model |
$fact1 $fact2 ... | factors to create a linear combination of the specified materials. Factors can be negative to subtract one material from an other. (optional, default = 1.0) |
The parallel material is represented graphically:
In a parallel model, strains are equal and stresses and stiffnesses are additive:
Code Developed by: fmk
Images Developed by: Silvia Mazzoni