Development of Practical Finite Element Models for Collapse of Reinforced Concrete Structures and Experimental Validation

Table 5

Computational cost comparison between continuum FE model and structural FE model for four parallel processors Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40 GHz.

Number of elements
Continuum FE model	540,000 continuum elements and 67,000 beams
Structural FE model	8,600 shells and 14,600 beams
Calculation time
Continuum FE model	and
Structural FE model	and
Memory (in LS-DYNA words)
Continuum FE model	192,000,000
Structural FE model	7,500,000