...Helena Barros; Rui Faria; Carla Ferreira; Carlos L. Moreno; Ana M. Sarmento Purpose The paper aims to present an experimental testing program regarding reinforced concrete slabs, with and without shear reinforcement, submitted to punching under both symmetric and eccentric loading. Comparisons...

... the damage evolution in the shear bands. The bifurcation triggering conditions and band growth directions are studied for these materials. Findings The resulting formulation does not require a specific mesh refinement to model a localization, provides mesh independent results also insensitive to element...

...Maria Anna Polak Purpose The paper aims to present a method of implementing layered shell finite elements for punching shear analysis of reinforced concrete slabs. The emphasis is on the influence of different material modelling parameters on the calculated results. Design/methodology/approach...