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CDP-Model of Concrete

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DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.30880.51209

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CDP-ParkPauly1.2.py

An application for concrete material creation using Concrete Damaged Plasticity model of
Abaqus.

Fig.1 The complete code of the application used to create CDP material in Abaqus

Through this code a CDP material model can be created several times with different names
(keys) for the material (line 19 in fig.1). The dictionary concMats contains all the materials
needed within certain model. As for the entries of every material required, they appear after the
colon (:) that separate between them and their key (CDPconcrete in fig.1) and they are as
follows:

 SI units system (either “mm” or “m”)

 Mass density of concrete in ton/mm3 unit.
 Poisson ratio.
 Initial young modulus of concrete. If you put 0. In its place the it will be calculated
according to certain form that came from codes of design. Enter the value that you have
to override the automatic calculation.
 First brackets [] contains the parameters 𝑓́𝑐 , 𝜀0 , 𝐸𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜 , −𝐸𝑐 see fig.2.
 Second brackets [] contains the parameters 𝑓𝑡𝑐 , 𝜀0𝑡 , 𝑛 related to the behavior of
concrete under tension. See fig.2
 Concrete Damaged Plasticity model’s parameters that are directly inserted to CDP
material in Abaqus. See fig.3

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Fig.2: stress-strain relations of CDP under compression and tension

Fig.3 CDP parameters entered from left to right, see the python file.

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 The last two parameters are Wc and Wt that can take 0-to-1 value. See fig.4

Fig.4- The tension and compression stiffness recovery

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