... with an element overlapped to the concrete element, having equivalent nodal displacements. Numerical examples are presented and compared with experimental and other numerical results. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Concrete Reinforced concrete Localization Numerical analysis The load‐displacement...

... (a) are used to understand the manner of stress traversal on the yield surface in principal stress space, (b) are employed to study the load displacement response and the possibility of ensuing localization. Associated plasticity is assumed throughout. The tests are conducted using perfect and strain softening...

...Matthew R. Kuhn An algorithm is presented for creating a flexible boundary to analyse three‐dimensional assemblies of spheres. It can be used to study localization phenomena in particulate materials. The boundary is composed of adjoining triangular plate elements which are connected...