Factory settings

The following is a list of the Plastic data for reinforced concrete, along with a brief description. 

• Elasto-plastic behaviour
  Controls if the elasto-plastic behaviour can be considered or not for the selected structural shell/limit state.

• Plastic hardening
  Enabling "Plastic hardening" adjusts the stress-strain law, using a parabola-rectangle model to depict concrete's hardening phase, affecting deformations with minimal impact on the ultimate load. Without it, a linear elastic-perfectly plastic model is used.
• Crushing
  This determines whether the ultimate crushing strain of concrete is considered or not, by comparing it to an equivalent strain found with a bi-axial model.

• Tension strength in plastic flow rule
  It controls whether the concrete tension strength is taken into account or not in the flow rule.

• Tension stiffening
  It controls whether the concrete tension stiffening is taken into account after cracking or not. The tension stiffening model can also be selected here.

• Reduced compression strength in case of lateral cracking
  In case of lateral cracking, the concrete compression strength is reduced by applying a dynamic effectiveness factor. Different models for the effectiveness factor can be chosen.

• Reduced transverse shear stiffness in case of cracking
  Consideration of the reduction of transverse shear stiffness in case of cracking.

• Ultimate strain in rebars
  This determines whether the ultimate tearing strain of rebars is taken into account or not.

• Reduced yield stress for compressed rebars
  It controls whether a reduction factor is applied to the yield stress of compressed reinforcement. If enabled, the yield stress in the compression direction is multiplied by this factor.

• Hardening in rebars
  It controls whether hardening behavior is considered beyond the elastic part, as opposed to the perfectly plastic behavior.