how to consider the effect of hoops?

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liufeng19
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how to consider the effect of hoops?

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there is hoops to confine concrete in columns. the parameters of concrete in the example 4 is plain concrete's parameters or confined concrete's parameters by some model, such as Mander model?
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it depends on your model, you might want to check the numbers.
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