Initial Stress Material

This command is used to construct an Initial Stress material object. The stress-strain behaviour for this material is defined by another material. Initial Stress Material enables definition of initial stress for the material under consideration. The strian that corresponds to the initial stress will be calculated from the other material.

uniaxialMaterial InitStressMaterial $matTag $otherTag
        $initStress

matTag

integer tag identifying material

otherTag

tag of the other material

initStress

initial stress


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