Numerical evaluations of a novel membrane element in simulations of reinforced concrete shear walls

This repository contains the source code and example models of paper 10.1016/j.engstruct.2019.109592.

Remarks

Adding reinforcement layer with existing element is considered not elegant. Thus, SRGCMQ and RCP4 elements are deprecated. Some examples won't run with the latest version of suanPan. To add reinforcement to membrane elements, one can use Rebar2D wrapper.

The numerical examples used in the paper are developed in suanPan. To perform the numerical analysis, one can download and install suanPan. Then run the model via, for example, the following command.

suanpan -f CDPPS-1X1.supan