Damaged material for rods/use of rib rods with different material model than surface

Good day.

I would like to investigate on a few models how the use of initial conditions affects a slab with ribbed beams, especially regarding the internal forces of the secondary beams.

Is there currently a way to model/view this?

In my second attempt, I modeled the slab with the damaged material and the ribbed beams as linear elastic; this apparently did not work because ribbed beams cannot be used with other material models. Unfortunately, I also quickly found no way to select the damaged material model for the ribbed beams.

Previously, I calculated it once as linear elastic, but as expected, no differences were noticeable.

I would be very pleased to receive feedback,

Best regards,

Nick

Hello @DeflectionPerfection :waving_hand:,
Thank you for your contribution.

It is basically possible to calculate ribs taking construction stages into account. However, currently ribs cannot be defined with a nonlinear material model. This is planned for future development (RUS 4850).

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