Hello,

I am trying to model a reinforced concrete beam in ANSYS 11. This software is new to me and I am having some problem in defining the reinforcement using the software. I have found some of the similar work in ANSYS have used SOLID 65 for concrete and LINK 8 for reinforcement. But I don't know how to input the link element as reinforcement. Since I am just starting to use ANSYS, can somebody please help me by providing some of the basic steps to model a reinforced concrete beam?  

Thanks.