Drougkas, A orcid.org/0000-0002-8647-9993, Sarhosis, V orcid.org/0000-0002-5748-7679 and Thermou, G (2022) Micromechanical Homogenisation of Steel Bars in Reinforced Concrete for Damage Analysis. Materials Today Communications, 31. 103235. ISSN 2352-4928
Abstract
A homogenisation scheme based on inclusion modelling is coupled with constitutive laws for damage and implemented in a finite element model for the simulation of concrete and reinforcement bar damage in reinforced concrete structures. The scheme is employed for simulating the behaviour of evenly distributed reinforcement and adapted for the simulation of zones with concentrated reinforcement in structural members.
The model is validated against experimental tests from the literature carried out on reinforced concrete members subjected to bending and direct tension. The model captures the main characteristics of the behaviour of and damage in the constituent materials of reinforced concrete without resorting to individual meshing of the embedded bars and with very low computational cost.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Reinforced concrete; Micromechanics; Homogenisation; Damage modelling; Finite element analysis |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Civil Engineering (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 101023384 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2022 12:19 |
Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2023 14:09 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2022.103235 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:183314 |