Simulation cyclic loading of a steel beam embedded in a concrete block in Abaqus

In this tutorial, the Simulation cyclic loading of a steel beam embedded in a concrete block in Abaqus has been done. The steel beam (or column) is modeled as a three-dimensional shell part. The concrete block is modeled as a three-dimensional solid part. The half of the steel beam is embedded inside the concrete block. You can see a figure of the assembled parts below

To model cyclic loading behavior of the materials, the proper material model should be selected. In this tutorial for the steel beam, kinematic and combine hardening can be used, these two models can calculate the yield surface changing during each cycle. The Concrete Damaged Plasticity is used to model the concrete behavior. The general step is appropriate for this type of analysis and it needs some changing in the convergence model to overcome the not convergence. The half of the beam is embedded inside the concrete by using embedded constraint in the interaction. The fixed boundary conditions is assigned to the bottom surface of the concrete block and cyclic load by using an amplitude is applied to the beam. The mesh should be fine to obtain good results

After the simulation, all results such as stress, strain, damage, hysteresis diagram, …are available. You can some figures for the results below

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