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Mesoscalemodelsforconcretehomogenisationanddamagebehaviour
FiniteElementsinAnalysisandDesign42(2006)623–636
Mesoscalemodelsforconcrete:
Homogenisationanddamagebehaviour
P.Wriggers∗,S.O.Moftah
InstituteforMechanicsandComputationalMechanics,UniversityofHannover,Hannover,Germany
Received27October2005;receivedinrevisedform27October2005;accepted20November2005
Availableonline9January2006
Abstract
Inthispaperthree-dimensionalgeometricalmodelsforconcretearegeneratedtakingtherandomstructureofaggregatesatthemesoscopiclevelintoconsideration.ThegenerationprocessisbaseduponMonteCarlo’ssimulationmethodwhereintheaggregateparticlesaregeneratedfromacertainaggregatesizedistributionandthenplacedintotheconcretespecimeninsuchawaythatthereisnointersectionbetweentheparticles.Forhighvolumefractionsofaggregates,newalgorithmsforgeneratingrealisticconcretemodelsareproposed.
Thegeneratedgeometricalmodelsarethenmeshedusingthealignedapproachinwhichthefiniteelementboundariesarecoincidentwithmaterialsinterfacesandthereforetherearenomaterialdiscontinuitieswithintheelements.
Thefiniteelementmethod(FEM)isusedinthedirectcomputationoftheeffectivepropertiesofconcrete.Theresultsobtainedfromthenumericalsimulationsandthesubsequenthomogenisationarethencomparedwithexperimentaldata.Furthermorenumericalsimulationsofthedamageandfractureprocessofconcreteareperformedusinganisotropicdamagemodeltomodeltheprogressivedegradationofconcrete.Finally,aconcreteblockisinvestigatedwherenumericalandexperimentalresultsarediscussed.
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Keywords:
Finiteelement;Homogenisation;Sievecurves;Concrete;Damage
1.Introduction
Concreteisthemostwidelyusedconstructionmaterialintheworldduetoitsgoodstrengthanddurabilityrelativetoitscost.Ithasagreatvarietyofapplicationsinthefieldofcivilengineering.Inbuildingconstruction,concreteisusedforfootings,foundations,columns,beams,girders,wallslabs,andallimportantbuildingelements.
Concretehasahighlyheterogeneousmicrostructureanditscompositebehaviourisexceedinglycomplex.Therefore,reli-ablepredictionsofthebehaviourofthematerialbasedexclu-sivelyonexperimentalstudieshavebecomelimited.Forob-tainingadeeperunderstanding,theoreticalstudiesbasedonmicromechanicsanalysisoftheinteractionbetweenvariouscomponentsofconcretehavebeendevelopedfordeducingthemacroscopicconstitutivebehaviourofconcrete.However,themicrostructureandpropertiesoftheindividualcomponents
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ofconcreteandtheireffectsonthemacroscopicmaterialbe-haviourhavenotbeentakenintoaccount.Forsuchdetailstobeincludedintothecomputationalanalysis,concreteneedstobeanalysedasamulti-scalecompositematerialwherethemi-crostructureisrealisticallysimulated.Numericalsimulations,coupledwiththeoryandexperiment,areconsideredtobeanextremelyimportanttoolforsuccessfullyexaminingmaterialpropertiesbymeansofcomputationalmaterialsscience.
Inthenumericalsimulationofconcreteatamesoscopiclevelitisevidentthatseveralparameterssuchastheshape,sizeanddistributionofcoarseaggregateswithinthemortarmatrixsig-nificantlyinfluencethemechanicalbehaviourofconcrete.Theaimofthisworkistogeneraterandommesostructuremodelsoftheconcretematerialatthemesoscopiclevelbasedupongivenparametersandprobabilitydistributionofaggregatepar-ticlescoordinatesandsizes.Then,thegeneratedmesostructuremodelsaretobemeshedusinganautomaticmeshingprepro-cessorforcomputationaltestingofthematerialwiththefiniteelementmethod(FEM)inordertoanalysetheeffectsofthemesostructureconstituentsonthemacroscopicresponseoftheconcretematerial.
Severalmesoscopicmodelsofconcretestructurehavebeendevelopedforstudyingtheinfluenceofmaterialcompositionontheoverallbehaviour.Bazantetal.[1]developedatrussmodeltosimulaterealisticallythespreadofcrackinganditslocalisation.SchornandRode[2]studieddamageprocessesofconcreteusingaframeworkmodel.AlatticemodelpresentedbySchlangenandvanMier[3]seemedtobeapromisingtoolforthesimulationoftypicalfailuremechanismandcrackfacebridginginconcrete.Anotherapproachforsimulatingthestruc-tureofconcretebyafiniteelementmeshhasbeendevelopedbyWittmannandhisco-workers[4–6].Inthisapproach,me-chanicalandnonmechanicalpropertiescanbemorerealisti-callysimulatedforconcretewithdifferentcompositions.Wangetal.[7]proposedaprocedureforgeneratingrandomaggregatestructuresbasedontheMonteCarlorandomsamplingprincipleandthendevelopedamethodofmeshgenerationforstudyingthenonlinearbehaviourofconcrete.
Inthegenerationofrandomconcretestructurestheshapeofaggregateparticleshastobetakenintoaccountinordertostudytheeffectofaggregateshapesuponthemechanicalbe-haviourofconcrete.Aggregateshapeshaveasignificantinflu-enceonthestressdistributionwithintheconcretematerialand,therefore,onthecracksinitiationanddamageaccumulationuptothemacroscopicfailure.Two-dimensionalmodelsweregen-eratedbyZaitsevandWittmann[8]tostudycrackpatternsinconcreteusingpolygonalandcircularshapesforaggregates.Wangetal.[7]andWittmanetal.[5]havegeneratedroundedaggregateparticlesfollowingthemorphologicallawdevelopedbyBeddowandMeloy[9].Forangularshapesofaggregateparticles,Wangetal.[7]adjustedshapesofrandomlygener-atedpolygonstohaveprescribedelongationratios.However,forthree-dimensionalmodels,Bazantetal.[1],GuidoumandNavi[10],SchlangenandvanMier[3]andSchornandRode[2]justassumedthataggregateparticleshavesphericalshapes.Morerecently,Häfneretal.[11],Leiteetal.[12]andZohdi[13]haveusedellipsoidfunctionswithvaryingparametersforobtainingvariousaggregateshapes.Garboczi[14]describedamathematicalprocedureusingsphericalharmonicfunctionstocompletelycharacteriseconcreteaggregateparticlesbasedonthree-dimensionalimagesacquiredviaX-raytomography.
Aggregatesizedistributionplaysanessentialroleinconcretemixdesignandoptimisation.Aproperselectionofaggregatesizedistributionaffectsthemainpropertiesofconcretesuchasworkabilityofconcretemix,mechanicalstrength,permeabilityanddurability.Thesizedistributionofaggregateparticlescanbeeitherdescribedbymeansofgradingcurvesorobtainedfromsieveanalysis.Fullercurveisoneofthemostacceptablegradingcurveswhichprovideoptimalaggregatepackingandthebestpropertiesofconcrete.Consequently,mostresearchersincludingSchlangen[15],SchlangenandvanMier[3],vanMieretal.[16]andWittmannetal.[6]appliedtheFullercurvetogeometricalmodellingofconcrete.
Inregardtothesimulationofaggregatespatialdistribution,differenttechniqueshavebeendevelopedtogenerateameso-scopicstructurethatresemblestherealconcrete.Bazantetal.[1],SchlangenandvanMier[3],Wittmannetal.[5]andWangetal.[7]adoptedthetake-and-placemethodforgeneratingran-
domparticlemodelsoflowparticlevolumefractions.DeSchut-terandTaerwe[17]usedanotherapproachforthegenerationofrandomconcretestructuresbasedonthedivide-and-fillmethod.Astochastic-heuristicalgorithmwasdevelopedbyLeiteetal.[12]forgeneratingamorerealisticthree-dimensionalstructureofconcrete.Forachievingveryhighaggregatevolumefrac-tion,vanMierandvanVliet[18]usedanalternativealgorithmcalledtherandomparticledropmethodforarrangementofag-gregateparticles.Adifferentapproachcalledthedistinctele-mentmethodwasdevelopedandextensivelyappliedbyCun-dallandStrack[19]forsimulatingthebehaviourofgranularsolidssuchassand.
NumericalanalysisofheterogeneousmaterialsusingtheFEMrequiresthediscretisationofthecreatedmesoscopicmodels.Differentmeshingtechniqueshavebeenappliedforthediscretisationofcomplexmicrostructures.Alignedmesh-ingapproacheshavetheadvantageofexplicitlyrepresentingtheboundariesbetweenparticlesandmatrix.However,themeshgenerationofrandomheterogeneousmaterialsisratheratediousprocessinthreedimensions.Thealignedapproachhasbeenusedbyseveralauthors,e.g.[17,20–22,7,6]forgenerat-ingfiniteelementmeshesintwo-dimensionalcases.Inrecentyears,ithasbeenrecognisedthattheinterfacialtransitionzone(ITZ)betweenaggregatesandmortarhasagreatinfluenceontheinitiationofmicrocracksinconcrete.Wangetal.[7]developedameshgenerationmethodbasedontheadvancingfrontapproachinwhichtheITZdomainsaremodelledusingGoodmantypeelements.However,Eckardtetal.[20]disre-gardedtheITZandassumedthatthebondbetweenaggregatesandmortarisrigid.
SchlangenandvanMier[3]andSchornandRode[2]usedaprojectionmethodofaregularmeshontotherandomaggregatestructure.InthemodelsofvanMierandvanVliet[18],vanMieretal.[16],Schlangen[15]andSchlangenandvanMier[3]theaggregates,matrixandITZpropertiesareassignedtoalatticeofbeamelements.AsimilartechniquehasbeenappliedbyLeiteetal.[12]inwhichthemodelsareidealisedaspla-nartrussesandframesfortwo-dime
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