This course is about Nonlinear Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures using ABAQUS/CAE Software. The author used the ABAQUS free demo version (student version) to prepare this course. ABAQUS is considered as a famous, reliable and advanced nonlinear finite element analysis package worldwide. Most of engineers, researchers, academics and students in structural engineering field strongly want to learn ABAQUS for nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete structures; they do not have adequate sources to learn it. This course is prepared to solve this problem. It covers the following topics:

• Comparison between ABAQUS and other available nonlinear packages in the market and its advantages
• Stages Analysis by ABAQUS o Concrete Constitutive Modeling in ABAQUS o Overview of ABAQUS Elements
• Choosing an Element Shape
• Detailed Examples:
  1. Example 1: Nonlinear Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Beam by ABAQUS
  2. Example 2: Nonlinear Analysis of Heated Spherical Steel Ball and Cooling by Immersing in Water by Coupled Temperature –Displacement Analysis.

• a) Build 3D geometry model using ABAQUS/CAE

• b) Define the concrete and steel Materials

• c) Concrete Element & steel reinforcement element

• d) Contact Elements between concrete & steel bars

• e) Assembly for the generated model

• f) Define, edit and verify the mesh of model

• g) Loading

• h) Set analysis step

• i) Non-Linear Analysis

• j) Set a boundary conditions

           k) Visualize and edit your analysis results

Learning Objectives

• Be able to build 3D geometry model using ABAQUS/CAE
• Be able to accurately model of concrete in ABAQUS?CAE
• Be able to choose the right and suitable finite element which accurately represent the concrete part
• Be able to define skillfully the suitable contact elements between different parts
• Be able to applied any type of loading and boundary conditions on the model