FE analysis of size effects in reinforced concrete beams without shear reinforcement based on stochastic elasto-plasticity with non-local softening
We investigate a deterministic and statistical size effect in reinforced concrete beams. We use stochastic elasto-plasticity with nonlocal softening in FE analyses. We assume the tensile strength spatially correlated. We compare FE results with experiments.
size effect reinforced concrete beams elasto-plasticity non-local softening random fields strain localization