...Yidan Cui; Yixiao Zhang; Qiuju Ma; Qi Zhang Purpose This study establishes an energy conduction model of glass and concrete mediums under explosion thermal radiation, investigates the temperature response and damage state of glass and concrete materials under transient thermal radiation...

...Ruifan Meng Purpose Creep behavior of concrete at high temperature has become a major concern in building structures, such as factories, bridges, tunnels, airports and nuclear buildings. Therefore, a simple and accurate prediction model for the high-temperature creep behavior of concrete...

...Mohammadreza Mirzahosseini; Pengcheng Jiao; Kaveh Barri; Kyle A. Riding; Amir H. Alavi Purpose Recycled waste glasses have been widely used in Portland cement and concrete as aggregate or supplementary cementitious material. Compressive strength is one of the most important properties of concrete...

...Xiaodong Zhang; Tinh Quoc Bui Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to achieve numerical simulation of cohesive crack growth in concrete structures. Design/methodology/approach – The extended finite element method (XFEM) using four-node quadrilateral element associated with the fictitious...

...Hu De’an; Liu Chunhan; Xiao YiHua; Han Xu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to confirm that the axisymmetric finite element and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (FE-SPH) adaptive coupling method is effective to solve explosion problem in concrete based on the experiments. Design...

...Mirela Galic; Pavao Marovic; Zeljana Nikolic Purpose The main aim of this paper is to present a three‐dimensional numerical material model for concrete which combines plasticity with a classical orthotropic smeared crack formulation. A further aim is to raise a discussion leading to the creation...

... of the deformable soil skeleton and the fluid phases – water and compressed air. The third example is concerned with computational durability mechanics of concrete structures. As a particular example of chemically corrosive mechanisms, the material degradation due to the dissolution of calcium and external loading...

.... The reliability analysis of reinforced concrete structures is performed taking into account the spatial variability of material properties. The finite element method is used to analyze reinforced concrete structures. A multidimensional non‐Gaussian stochastic field generation model (independent of the finite...

...Bernhard A. Schrefler; Carmelo E. Majorana; Gabriel A. Khoury; Dariusz Gawin This paper presents the physical, mathematical and numerical models forming the main structure of the numerical analysis of the thermal, hydral and mechanical behaviour of normal, high‐performance concrete (HPC) and ultra...

...António A.R. Henriques; Francisco Calheiros; Joaquim A. Figueiras A contribution to the definition of a novel safety format for the design of concrete structures based on non‐linear methods of analysis is the main purpose of this work. A brief discussion of design formats proposed by codes...

...M.H.F.M. Barros; R.A.F. Martins; C.C. Ferreira A model for the analysis of plain and reinforced concrete structures is developed in the present work. In the plain concrete the localisation of the microcracking within a small band is formulated in terms of constant fracture energy. In the reinforced...

... moving on concrete and ice surfaces, a friction law for 3D contact analyses is presented in this paper. It is characterized by the dependency on the contact pressure, sliding velocity and the environmental temperature. The identification and correction of the parameters of this friction law were done...

...S. Rizzo; R. Spallino; G. Giambanco Approaches the shakedown optimal design of reinforced concrete (RC) structures, subjected to variable and repeated external quasi‐static actions which may generate the well‐known shakedown or adaptation phenomenon, when constraints are imposed on deflection...

...Abdel‐Hakim A. Khalil; Tarek M. Fawzy; Salah El‐Din F. Taher; Galal A. Abdellah In this paper, Isoparametric finite element formulations are derived for special elements for representing the steel‐concrete interface. Curved multi‐noded Isoparametric element for reinforcing steel idealization...

... results. These computations provide information useful in developing refined macromodels for engineering analyses. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Concrete Fracture Networks Remeshing (3) Various toughening mechanisms are not realized by single fracture models. For example, during matrix...

...Zeljana Nikolic; Ante Mihanovic Presents a non‐linear numerical model for the computations of post‐tensioned plane structures. Generally curved prestressing tendons and reinforcing bars are embedded into the concrete and they are modelled independently of the concrete mesh using one‐dimensional...