TY - BOOK
T1 - Mesoscale modelling of concrete specimens under high-speed impact loads
AU - Hao, Yifei
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - [Truncated abstract] It is widely accepted that the uniaxial compressive and tensile strengths of concrete and concrete-like material increase with strain rate. These strength increments are usually modelled by a Dynamic Increase Factor (DIF) at given strain rates in the analysis and design of concrete structures to dynamic loads. Many empirical relations of concrete material strength DIF have been obtained primarily based on laboratory impact tests and proposed for use in the design and analysis. However, it is commonly agreed that a few parameters associated with stress wave propagation will affect the DIF values from impact tests, including the lateral and axial inertia confinement, end friction confinement and stress wave propagation effect. Many different measures have been proposed to eliminate or limit the influences of these effects in dynamic tests of material properties. Unfortunately, owing to the nature of dynamic loadings, especially those with high loading rates, it is very unlikely to neither completely eliminate these influences in physical testing nor quantify these influences from the laboratory testing data. Moreover, most of these empirical relations were obtained from testing data of concrete-like materials, i.e. the testing specimens were made of mortar matrix only without coarse aggregates owing to constraints in preparing the concrete specimens for high-speed impact tests. Because concrete is a composite material with mortar matrix, interfacial transition zone (ITZ) and aggregates, and these components have different material properties, using specimens made of mortar material alone in tests may not give accurate concrete dynamic material properties. In addition, aggregates in concrete mix are usually made of rocks and the DIF of rock materials obtained in impact tests is also affected by the factors such as lateral inertia confinement and end friction confinement.
AB - [Truncated abstract] It is widely accepted that the uniaxial compressive and tensile strengths of concrete and concrete-like material increase with strain rate. These strength increments are usually modelled by a Dynamic Increase Factor (DIF) at given strain rates in the analysis and design of concrete structures to dynamic loads. Many empirical relations of concrete material strength DIF have been obtained primarily based on laboratory impact tests and proposed for use in the design and analysis. However, it is commonly agreed that a few parameters associated with stress wave propagation will affect the DIF values from impact tests, including the lateral and axial inertia confinement, end friction confinement and stress wave propagation effect. Many different measures have been proposed to eliminate or limit the influences of these effects in dynamic tests of material properties. Unfortunately, owing to the nature of dynamic loadings, especially those with high loading rates, it is very unlikely to neither completely eliminate these influences in physical testing nor quantify these influences from the laboratory testing data. Moreover, most of these empirical relations were obtained from testing data of concrete-like materials, i.e. the testing specimens were made of mortar matrix only without coarse aggregates owing to constraints in preparing the concrete specimens for high-speed impact tests. Because concrete is a composite material with mortar matrix, interfacial transition zone (ITZ) and aggregates, and these components have different material properties, using specimens made of mortar material alone in tests may not give accurate concrete dynamic material properties. In addition, aggregates in concrete mix are usually made of rocks and the DIF of rock materials obtained in impact tests is also affected by the factors such as lateral inertia confinement and end friction confinement.
KW - Concrete
KW - Mesoscale model
KW - SHPB
KW - High strain rate
KW - Lateral inertia confinement
KW - Direct tension
KW - End friction confinement
KW - Aggregate effect
M3 - Doctoral Thesis
ER -