Parallel Material

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This command is used to construct a parallel material object made up of an arbitrary number of previously-constructed UniaxialMaterial objects.

uniaxialMaterial Parallel $matTag $tag1 $tag2 ...

$matTag integer tag identifying material
$tag1 $tag2 ... identification tags of materials making up the material model

The parallel material is represented graphically:

In a parallel model, strains are equal and stresses and stiffnesses are additive:


Code Developed by: fmk

Images Developed by: Silvia Mazzoni