Abstract
This paper presents a series of fiber element analysis to reproduce experimental behavior of RC C-bent columns under cyclic and seismic excitations. In the fiber element analysis, the plastic hinge region of column was idealized by a fiber element to compute flexural hystereses. A torsional behavior is represented by a rotational spring, assuming that the torsional and the flexural hystereses are independent. The analysis provides a good numerical simulation in the longitudinal direction, while it does not correlate well in the longitudinal direction.
