Your strain at maximum strength seems to be a positive value. For compressive parameters regarding concrete we use negative values.
set Epsc0 -0.003; # concrete strain at maximum strength
set Eupsu -0.005; # concrete strain at crushing strength
this might solve your convergence problem.
ao
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- Thu Apr 14, 2016 11:30 am
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- Topic: Convergence issue using Concrete02
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