Accurate simulation of the cracking process caused by rust expansion of reinforced concrete(RC)structures plays an intuitive role in revealing the corrosion-induced failure mechanism.Considering the quasi-brittle frac...Accurate simulation of the cracking process caused by rust expansion of reinforced concrete(RC)structures plays an intuitive role in revealing the corrosion-induced failure mechanism.Considering the quasi-brittle fracture of concrete,the fracture phase field driven by the compressive-shear term is constructed and added to the traditional brittle fracture phase field model.The rationality of the proposed model is verified by a mixed fracture example under a shear displacement load.Then,the extended fracture phase model is applied to simulate the corrosion-induced cracking process of RC.The cracking patterns caused by non-uniform corrosion expansion are discussed for RC specimens with homogeneous macroscopically or heterogeneous with different polygonal aggregate distributions at the mesoscopic scale.Then,the effects of the protective layer on the crack propagation trajectory and cracking resistance are investigated,illustrating that the cracking angle and cracking resistance increase with the increase of the protective layer thickness,consistent with the experimental observation.Finally,the corrosion-induced cracking process of concrete specimens with large and small spacing rebars is simulated,and the interaction of multiple corrosion cracking is easily influenced by the reinforcement spacing,which increases with the decrease of the steel bar interval.These conclusions play an important role in the design of engineering anti-corrosion measures.The fracture phase field model can provide strong support for the life assessment of RC structures.展开更多
As a typical brittle material,glass is widely used in construction,transportation,shipbuilding,aviation,aerospace and other industries.The unsafe factors of glass mainly come from its rupture.Thus,establishing a set o...As a typical brittle material,glass is widely used in construction,transportation,shipbuilding,aviation,aerospace and other industries.The unsafe factors of glass mainly come from its rupture.Thus,establishing a set of prediction models for the cracks growth of glass under dynamic load is necessary.This paper presents a contact damage model for glass based on the ordinary state-based peridynamic theory by introducing a contact force function.The Hertz contact(nonembedded contact)problem is simulated,and the elastic contact force is determined by adjusting the penalty factor.The proposed model verifies the feasibility of penalty-based method to simulate the contact problem of glass.The failure process of glass specimen under impact is simulated,where two loading methods,the drop ball test and the split Hopkinson pressure bar are considered.Numerical results agree well with the experimental observations,thereby verifying the effectiveness of the proposed model.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Qing Zhang,Nos.11932006,U1934206,12172121)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Xin Gu,No.B210201031).
文摘Accurate simulation of the cracking process caused by rust expansion of reinforced concrete(RC)structures plays an intuitive role in revealing the corrosion-induced failure mechanism.Considering the quasi-brittle fracture of concrete,the fracture phase field driven by the compressive-shear term is constructed and added to the traditional brittle fracture phase field model.The rationality of the proposed model is verified by a mixed fracture example under a shear displacement load.Then,the extended fracture phase model is applied to simulate the corrosion-induced cracking process of RC.The cracking patterns caused by non-uniform corrosion expansion are discussed for RC specimens with homogeneous macroscopically or heterogeneous with different polygonal aggregate distributions at the mesoscopic scale.Then,the effects of the protective layer on the crack propagation trajectory and cracking resistance are investigated,illustrating that the cracking angle and cracking resistance increase with the increase of the protective layer thickness,consistent with the experimental observation.Finally,the corrosion-induced cracking process of concrete specimens with large and small spacing rebars is simulated,and the interaction of multiple corrosion cracking is easily influenced by the reinforcement spacing,which increases with the decrease of the steel bar interval.These conclusions play an important role in the design of engineering anti-corrosion measures.The fracture phase field model can provide strong support for the life assessment of RC structures.
基金This study was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11932006,U1934206)Recipient:Qing Zhang.And National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.12002118)+1 种基金Recipient:Xin Gu.And Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China(No.20KJB580015)Recipient:Runpu Li。
文摘As a typical brittle material,glass is widely used in construction,transportation,shipbuilding,aviation,aerospace and other industries.The unsafe factors of glass mainly come from its rupture.Thus,establishing a set of prediction models for the cracks growth of glass under dynamic load is necessary.This paper presents a contact damage model for glass based on the ordinary state-based peridynamic theory by introducing a contact force function.The Hertz contact(nonembedded contact)problem is simulated,and the elastic contact force is determined by adjusting the penalty factor.The proposed model verifies the feasibility of penalty-based method to simulate the contact problem of glass.The failure process of glass specimen under impact is simulated,where two loading methods,the drop ball test and the split Hopkinson pressure bar are considered.Numerical results agree well with the experimental observations,thereby verifying the effectiveness of the proposed model.
