Numerical Modelling and Bearing Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Beams

This paper discusses the fracture-plastic material models for reinforced concrete and use of this model for modelling of reinforced concrete beams. Load-displacement relations and bearing capacity of reinforced concrete beams will be evaluated. A series of original (own) experiments - the beam and data from completed experiments - have been chosen for the numerical modelling. In case of the original experiments - reinforced concrete beams, stochastic modelling based on LHS (Latin Hypercube Sampling) will be carried out in order to estimate the total bearing capacity. The software used for the fracture-plastic model for reinforced concrete is ATENA.