Mechanical Behavior of Concrete by Jean-Michel Torrenti, Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot, and Jean-Marie Reynouard
Contents of Mechanical Behavior of Concrete
- PART 1. INSTANTANEOUS OR TIME-INDEPENDENT MODELS FOR CONCRETE
- Chapter 1. Test Techniques and Experimental Characterization
- Experimental specificities related to concrete material
- Composition and variability of the material
- Specimen preparation
- Preservation and curing conditions
- Size effect
- Extensometers and experimental conditions
- Classical extensometry on a concrete specimen
- Boundary conditions and experimental set-up
- Behavior of concrete under uniaxial stress: classical tests
- Direct uniaxial tension
- Indirect uniaxial tension
- Diffuse tension test
- Bi-tube tension test
- Uniaxial compression
- Uniaxial torsion
- Concrete under multiaxial stresses
- Multiaxial stresses with tension
- Biaxial compression
- Triaxial compression
- Mechanical Behavior of Concrete
- Conclusions regarding the experimental characterization of the multiaxial behavior of concrete
- Bibliography
- Chapter 2. Modeling the Macroscopic Behavior of Concrete
- The discrete approach
- Fracture mechanics – elements for the analysis
- of cracked areas
- Discrete approach to cracking
- Hillerborg’s fictitious crack model
- Continuous approach
- Damage mechanics
- Plasticity theory
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 3. Failure and Size Effect of Structural Concrete
- Probabilistic structural size effect
- Basics of the weakest link theory
- Generalized probabilistic size effect law
- Deterministic size effect
- Fractality and size effect
- Basis of the fractal approach
- Fractality of the fracture surface and fracture energy
- Lacunar fractality and multifractality of the nominal
- stress at failure
- Size effect and calibration of non-local models
- Description of size effect according to the non-local
- damage model
- Calibration of internal length from size effect test data
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgement
- Bibliography
- PART 2. CONCRETE UNDER CYCLIC AND DYNAMIC LOADING
- Chapter 4. Cyclic Behavior of Concrete and Reinforced Concrete
- Jean-François DUBÉ
- Characterization tests of the cyclic behavior
- Uniaxial cyclic behavior
- Cyclic tests on structural elements
- Conclusions
- Modeling the reinforced concrete cyclic behavior
- Thermodynamic-based model with crack closure
- Distributed cracking models
- Microplane model
- Modeling of the cyclic behavior of concrete
- Characteristics of the cyclic behavior and their influence
- Influence of the loading rate
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Chapter 5. Cyclic and Dynamic Loading Fatigue of Structural Concrete
- The mechanisms of concrete fatigue
- Nature of the phenomenon
- Fatigue strength and number of cycles to failure
- Strains and damage
- The fatigue strength under uniaxial compression or traction
- Aas-Jakobsen’s formula
- S-N-R curves
- Ros’s diagram
- Haigh’s diagram
- Goodman-Smith’s diagram
- Extension to Aas-Jakobsen’s formula
- Effect of the frequency and the cycle shape
- Fatigue under alternate uniaxial loading
- Fatigue under multiaxial loading
- Fatigue in the presence of passive confinement
- Fatigue under biaxial loading
- Fatigue under triaxial cyclic loading
- Fatigue under high-level cyclic loading
- General principles for the analysis
- Modified Aas-Jakobsen’s formula
- Mechanical Behavior of Concrete
- Formulas based upon the theories of damage
- Fatigue strength under variable level cyclic loadings
- Rule of linear accumulation
- Rule of non-linear accumulation
- Fatigue under random loading
- Bibliography
- Chapter 6. Rate-Dependent Behavior and Modeling for
- Transient Analyses
- Fabrice GATUINGT
- Introduction
- Experimental behavior
- Dynamic behavior in uniaxial compression
- Dynamic behavior in uniaxial tension
- Dynamic behavior in multiaxial loading
- Behavior modeling of concrete in dynamics
- Modeling of dynamic failure of concrete using a viscoelastic viscoplastic damage continuum model
- A damage model for the dynamic fragmentation of brittle solids
- Anisotropic three-dimensional delay-damage model
- Damage coupled to plasticity for high strain rate dynamics
- Bibliography
- PART 3. TIME-DEPENDENT RESPONSE OF CONCRETE
- Chapter 7. Concrete at an Early Age: the Major Parameters
- Influence of the composition of concrete
- Characteristics related to the temperature of concrete
- Mechanical characteristics
- Consequences of boundary conditions
- Consequences of thermal boundary conditions
- Consequences of hygrometric boundary conditions
- Consequences of mechanical boundary conditions
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 8. Modeling Concrete at Early Age
- The coupled thermo-chemo-mechanical problem
- Macroscopic modeling of hydration
- Identification of the hydration kinetics
- Identification of the normalized affinity
- Data collection and experimental methods
- Degree of hydration
- Volume changes
- Mechanical behavior
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 9. Delayed Effects – Creep and Shrinkage
- Definitions and mechanisms
- Microstructure of cement paste
- Shrinkage
- Creep
- Experimental approach
- Tests
- Testing equipment
- Data processing
- Delayed response modeling
- Modeling drying
- Modeling of the desiccation shrinkage
- Creep modeling
- Conclusion
- Codified models
- Goals and limitations of codified models
- RILEM recommendations on codified models characteristics
- Comparison of the performance of the principal models currently proposed in the case of different codes in Europe and in the United States
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Mechanical Behavior of Concrete
