January 30, 2023 at 4:57 pm
Reno Genest
Ansys Employee

Hello,

This would be a good application for SPG. You could model the concrete with SPG particles. See *SECTION_SOLID_SPG in the user manual for more information. We have a model with concrete modelled as SPG and *MAT_CONCRETE_DAMAGE_REL3 was used. You will find SPG examples here:

https://www.lstc-cmmg.org/drilling

https://www.lstc-cmmg.org/spr

 

You can download the model by clicking on the [in]:

 

Reno.