Flexural Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Beams using ANSYS

Abstract

In the present paper, the  flexural behavior of reinforced concrete beams with design reinforcement was steel and different beam bending using ANSYS 12.1 version through load-deflection diagrams. The variation of deflection, strain energy and stress intensity factor was studied for different beam width-to-depth ratios and different grades of concrete and steel. Twenty seven reinforced concrete beams with minimum flexural reinforcement and twenty seven  reinforced concrete beams with design reinforcement have been modelled and analysed in ANSYS. Total beams modelled and analysed were fifty four.