Defining the shape of the failure surface for a concrete smeared cracking model

You can specify failure ratios to define the shape of the failure surface. If you do not define the shape of the failure surface, Abaqus uses the default values listed below.

  1. Create a material model as described in Specifying a concrete smeared cracking model.”

  2. From the Suboptions menu, select Failure Ratios.

    A Suboption Editor appears.

  3. Toggle on Use temperature-dependent data to define data that depend on temperature.

    A column labeled Temp appears in the Data table.

  4. Click the arrows to the right of the Number of field variables field to increase or decrease the number of field variables on which the data depend.

  5. Enter the following data in the Data table:

    Ratio 1

    Ratio of the ultimate biaxial compressive stress to the uniaxial compressive ultimate stress. The default value is 1.16.

    Ratio 2

    Absolute value of the ratio of uniaxial tensile stress at failure to the uniaxial compressive stress at failure. The default value is 0.09.

    Ratio 3

    Ratio of the magnitude of a principal component of plastic strain at ultimate stress in biaxial compression to the plastic strain at ultimate stress in uniaxial compression. The default value is 1.28.

    Ratio 4

    Ratio of the tensile principal stress value at cracking in plane stress, when the other nonzero principal stress component is at the ultimate compressive stress value, to the tensile cracking stress under uniaxial tension. The default value is 1/3.

    Temp

    Temperature.

    Field n

    Predefined field variables.

    You may need to expand the dialog box to see all the columns in the Data table. For detailed information on how to enter data, see Entering tabular data.

  6. Click OK to return to the Edit Material dialog box.