Parallel

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

Model.uniaxial(“ParallelMaterial”, name, materials)

materials		[materials1,materials2], materials1 Ref(uniaxial) materials2 Ref(uniaxial)

The parallel material is represented graphically as follows:

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

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