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Preparation of Aligned Steel Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composite and Its Flexural Behavior
Published on: June 27, 2018
Experimental and Hybrid FEM/Peridynamic Study on the Fracture of Ultra-High-Performance Concretes Reinforced by
Kun Zhang1, Tao Ni2,3, Jin Zhang4,5
1Department of Transportation Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, China.
Abstract:
In this study, a series of three-point bending tests were carried out with notched beam structures made of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber-reinforced ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) to study the effect of volume fractions of PVA fibers on the fracture characteristics of the UHPC-PVAs. Furthermore, in order to meet the increasing demand for time- and cost-saving design methods related to research and design experimentation for the UHPC structures, a relevant hybrid finite element and extended bond-based peridynamic numerical modeling approach is proposed to numerically analyze the fracture behaviors of the UHPC-PVA structures in 3D. In the proposed method, the random distribution of the fibers is considered according to their corresponding volume fractions. The predicted peak values of the applied force agree well with the experimental results, which validates the effectiveness and accuracy of the present method. Both the experimental and numerical results indicate that, increasing the PVA fiber volume fraction, the strength of the produced UHPC-PVAs will increase approximately linearly.
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