FraMCoS 9 2016 Berkeley, California, USA

Debilities and strengths of FEM-based constitutive models for the material nonlinear analysis of steel fibre reinforced concrete structures

During the last decades several improvements have been made on the numerical simulation of concrete type structures by modeling the relevant nonlinearities presented by concrete and reinforcements, as well as their interactions. With the advent of new cement based materials,…

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Abstract

During the last decades several improvements have been made on the numerical simulation of concrete type structures by modeling the relevant nonlinearities presented by concrete and reinforcements, as well as their interactions. With the advent of new cement based materials, such is the case of fiber reinforced concrete (FRC), new challenges and difficulties are placed to the computational mechanics community. This work discusses debilities and strengths of constitutive models implemented under the framework of the finite element method (FEM) for the simulation of FRC structures, and points out areas deserving further specific research for more reliable modelling strategies.