Continuous and Discontinuous Modelling of Fracture in Concrete Using FEM

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The book analyzes a quasi-static fracture process in concrete and reinforced concrete by means of constitutive models formulated within continuum mechanics. A continuous and discontinuous modelling approach was used. Using a continuous approach, numerical analyses were performed using a finite element method and four different enhanced continuum models: isotropic elasto-plastic, isotropic damage and anisotropic smeared crack one. The models were equipped with a characteristic length of micro-structure by means of a non-local and a second-gradient theory. So they could properly describe the formation of localized zones with a certain thickness and spacing and a related deterministic size effect. Using a discontinuous FE approach, numerical results of cracks using a cohesive crack model and XFEM were presented which were also properly regularized. Finite element analyses were performed with concrete elements under monotonic uniaxial compression, uniaxial tension, bending and shear-extension. Concrete beams under cyclic loading were also simulated using a coupled elasto-plastic-damage approach. Numerical simulations were performed at macro- and meso-level of concrete. A stochastic and deterministic size effect was carefully investigated. In the case of reinforced concrete specimens, FE calculations were carried out with bars, slender and short beams, columns, corbels and tanks. Tensile and shear failure mechanisms were studied. Numerical results were compared with results from corresponding own and known in the scientific literature laboratory and full-scale tests.

Author(s): Jacek Tejchman, Jerzy BobiƄski (auth.)
Series: Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2013

Language: English
Pages: 418
Tags: Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)

Front Matter....Pages 1-5
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Behaviour....Pages 5-47
Continuous Approach to Concrete....Pages 49-93
Discontinuous Approach to Concrete....Pages 95-107
Continuous and Discontinuous Modelling of Fracture in Plain Concrete under Monotonic Loading....Pages 109-162
Continuous Modelling of Fracture in Plain Concrete under Cyclic Loading....Pages 163-182
Modelling of Fracture in Reinforced Concrete under Monotonic Loading....Pages 183-296
Deterministic and Statistical Size Effect in Plain Concrete....Pages 297-341
Mesoscopic Modelling of Strain Localization in Plain Concrete....Pages 343-405
Final Conclusions and Future Research Directions....Pages 407-412
Back Matter....Pages 0--1