I want to model a monolithic concrete two-way slab with concrete beams along column lines. If the beam is broken into a series of short beam elements and the slab is broken into an array of small plate elements, the obvious thing to do is for the plates and beams to share a common set of nodes. However this means that a portion of the plate element coincides with the beam which double counts the overlapping area for self-weight and strength. How is this condition, which seems fairly common, typically modeled?
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