Artykuł omawia obliczanie lokalizacji odkształceń w elementach betonowych poddanych rozciąganiu. Obliczenia wykonano dla betonu na poziomie mezo. Obliczenia wykonano przy zastosowaniu modelu zniszczeniowego z degradacją sztywności rozszerzonego o nielokalność.

Fracture is a major reason of the global failure of concretes. The understanding of fracture is important to ensure the safety of structures and to optimize the material behaviour. In particular an early prediction possibility of fracture in concretes is of major importance. In this paper, concrete fracture under bending was numerically analysed using the Discrete Element Method (DEM). The real mesoscopic structure of a concrete...

The paper describes numerical meso-scale results of a size effect on strength, brittleness and fracture in brittle materials like concrete. The discrete element method (DEM) was used to simulate the size effect during quasi-static splitting tension with the experimental-based meso-structure. The two-dimensional (2D) calculations were carried out on concrete cylindrical specimens with two diameters wherein two different failure...