This paper studied the main cracking reasons for small and medium-span continuous girder bridge with secondary concreting based on ANSYS. Some prevention measures to concrete crack caused by the inelastic subsidence were also proposed. In considering the global deformation of scaffold-beam, the inelastic deformation of scaffold, the hydration heat of cement, and the characteristics of early-age concrete, influence of inelastic subsidence of support foundation on concrete cracking were analyzed by time-varying transient analysis. It can be concluded that the value of inelastic deformation is the decisive factor for the concrete cracking. Field measurement results of several bridges validate the conclusion.
This paper presents a method to simulate the mechanical behavior of magnetorheological fluid (MRF) subjected to magnetic field in the pre-yield region in ANSYS. The main idea is to devide an MRF element into two coincident elements, one of them has density and viscosity without shear modulus while another has shear modulus without density and viscosity. Taking a simply supported MRF sandwich beam as an example, good results and reasonable conclusion are obtained by comparing the results with the theoretical analysis and experimental study of Ref.[1]. The validity of finite element analysis is also investigated in this paper. At present, there is no exactly appropriate element type in ANSYS to model MRF, this kind of method called coincident elements method (CEM) will provide a new way to model the structures with MRF or MR dampers in ANSYS, and it also has reference roles for the future development of related elements in ANSYS.
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