Compression only material

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Hello,

I’m trying to use the Compression_only option to model the material of a masonry arch.
Going through the manual, I see that the mechanical parameters required are the Young modulus and the maximum tensile stress.
Shouldn’t the Poisson coefficient be specified as well? Doesn’t it influence the analysis?

Thanks,
Andrea

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Check the file concretebeam.inp provided with test examples here:

http://www.dhondt.de/ccx_2.19.test.tar.bz2

Compression only material is used there and you can see how it works.