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A constitutive law for concrete with smooth transition from continuous into discontinuous cracks’ description
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Paper presents a constitutive model for concrete that combines a continuous and discontinuous crack’s description to simulate the concrete under tensile dominated loads. In a continuum regime, two different constitutive laws were used. First, a plasticity model with the Rankine failure criterion and an associated flow rule was used. Second, a constitutive law based on isotropic damage mechanics was formulated. Both model alternatives were enriched by a characteristic length of micro-structure with the aid of a integral non-local theory to preserve the mesh-insensitivity of FE-results. Displacement jumps across cracks were captured by applying the eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) with cohesive tractions. A transfer function was introduced allowing for a gradual switch from a continuous (smeared) to discontinuous (discrete) softening process. Nodes and elements in the transition zone were doubled. Two benchmarks were numerically simulated with a dominated mode-I (three-point bending test) and under mixed-mode conditions (Nooru-Mohamed test).
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- Category:
- Conference activity
- Type:
- materiały konferencyjne indeksowane w Web of Science
- Title of issue:
- Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures strony 499 - 508
- Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Bibliographic description:
- Bobiński J., Tejchman-Konarzewski A..: A constitutive law for concrete with smooth transition from continuous into discontinuous cracks’ description, W: Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures, 2018, ,.
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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