FraMCoS 11 2023 Bangalore, India

Phase-field model for degradation of steel fiber-reinforced ultra-high performance concrete during low cycle fatigue

The degradation of fiber-reinforced ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is mainly dominated by the pseudo-ductile behavior of concrete material and the complex fiber-matrix inter- actions. A phenomenological material model is derived, which is a combination of the superposed models of one-dimensional…

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Abstract

The degradation of fiber-reinforced ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is mainly dominated by the pseudo-ductile behavior of concrete material and the complex fiber-matrix inter- actions. A phenomenological material model is derived, which is a combination of the superposed models of one-dimensional elasto-plasticity to describe the fibers and an elasto-plastic phase-field modeloffracture in concrete material. Therein, to capture the distinct behavior of concrete in tension and compression, two different continuous stepwise linearly approximated degradation functions are constructed. The uniaxial tensile and compression tests are simulated to calibrate the material pa- rameters of UHPC. Three-point bending beam tests at low cycles are simulated to study the failure behavior of reinforced UHPCs with different fiber contents and orientations. The volume fraction of fibers and orientation distribution functions (ODF) incorporate various contents and directions of re- inforced fibers. The simulated results and experimental data are plotted in terms of load-crack mouth opening displacement (CMOD) curves and compared with each other to check the capabilities of the presented model. The calculated and interpolated residual-COMD curves using numerical and experimental results are compared to validate the accuracy of the simulated results in terms of the degradation of the stiffness and plastic part of the crack opening during failure.