• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
• /
• 제36권6호
• /
• pp.512-527
• /
• 2004

This paper describes the finite element (FE) analysis results of a 1/4 scale model of a prestressed concrete containment vessel (PCCV) by considering the tension stiffening effect, which is a result of the bond effect between the concrete and the steel. The tension stiffening model is assumed to be an exponential form based on the relationship between the average stress and the average strain of the concrete. The objective of the present FE analysis is to evaluate the ultimate internal pressure capacity of the PCCV, as well as its failure mechanism, when the PCCV model is subjected to a monotonous internal pressure beyond is design pressure capacity. With the commercial code ABAQUS, the FE analysis used two concrete failure criteria: a 2-dimensional axi-symmetric model with modified Drucker-Prager failure criteria and a 3-dimensional model with a damaged plasticity mod디. The results of our FE analysis on the ultimate pressure capacity and failure modes of PCCV have a good agreement with the experimental data.

• Computers and Concrete
• /
• 제12권5호
• /
• pp.585-612
• /
• 2013

The paper presents quasi-static numerical simulations of the behaviour of short reinforced concrete beams without shear reinforcement under mixed shear-tension failure using the FEM and four various constitutive continuum models for concrete. First, an isotropic elasto-plastic model with a Drucker-Prager criterion defined in compression and with a Rankine criterion defined in tension was used. Next, an anisotropic smeared crack and isotropic damage model were applied. Finally, an elasto-plastic-damage model was used. To ensure mesh-independent FE results, to describe strain localization in concrete and to capture a deterministic size effect, all models were enhanced in a softening regime by a characteristic length of micro-structure by means of a non-local theory. Bond-slip between concrete and reinforcement was considered. The numerical results were directly compared with the corresponding laboratory tests performed by Walraven and Lehwalter (1994). The advantages and disadvantages of enhanced models to model the reinforced concrete behaviour were outlined.

• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
• /
• 제2권2호
• /
• pp.123-136
• /
• 2008

A new plastic-damage constitutive model applicable to lightweight concrete (LWC) and normal weight concrete (NWC) is proposed in this paper based on both continuum damage mechanics and plasticity theories. Two damage variables are used to represent tensile and compressive damage independently. The effective stress is computed in the Drucker-Prager multi-surface plasticity framework. The stress is then computed by multiplication of the damaged part and the effective part. The proposed model is coded as a user material subroutine and incorporated in a finite element analysis software. The constitutive integration algorithm is implemented by adopting the operator split involving elastic predictor, plastic corrector and damage corrector. The numerical study shows that the algorithm is efficient and robust in the finite element analysis. Experimental investigation is conducted to verify the proposed model involving both static and dynamic tests. The very good agreement between the numerical results and experimental results demonstrates the capability of the proposed model to capture the behaviors of LWC and NWC structures for static and impact loading.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
• /
• 제24권2호
• /
• pp.137-154
• /
• 2006

The reliable pushover analysis of RC structures requires a realistic prediction of moment-curvature relations, which can be obtained by utilizing proper constitutive models for the stress-strain relationships of laterally confined concrete members. Theoretical approach of Mander is still a single stress-strain model, which employs a multiaxial failure surface for the determination of the ultimate strength of confined concrete. Alternatively, this paper introduces a simple and practical failure criterion for confined concrete with emphasis on introduction of significant modifications into the two-parameter Drucker-Prager model. The new criterion is only applicable to triaxial compression stress state which is exactly the case in the RC columns. Unlike many existing multi-parameter criteria proposed for the concrete fracture, the model needs only the compressive strength of concrete as an independent parameter and also implies for the influence of the Lode angle on the material strength. Adopting Saenz equation for stress-strain plots, satisfactory agreement between the measured and predicted results for the available experimental test data of confined normal and high strength concrete specimens is obtained. Moreover, it is found that further work involving the confinement pressure is still encouraging since the confinement model of Mander overestimates the ultimate strength of some RC columns.

• 대한토목학회논문집
• /
• 제14권3호
• /
• pp.403-414
• /
• 1994

본 연구에서는 철근콘크리트 격납구조물에서 가상의 냉각재 유출사고에 의한 온도하중과 압력에 따른 거동을 알아보기 위한 비선형 해석을 수행하였다. 시간에 따른 온도하중을 결정하기 위하여 과도온도해석을 통해 격납구조물 단면내의 온도분포를 구하였다. 구조물은 기하학적 비선형성과 재료비선형성을 고려한 쉘요소로 이상화되며, 쉘요소는 두께방향에 따라 변하는 응력을 고려하기 위해 몇 개의 층으로 이루어진 모델을 사용하였다. 본 연구에서는 재료비선형성을 고려하기위해 콘크리트의 압축거동은 Drucker-Prager 항복규준에 의해 모델링하며 부착효과를 고려한 콘크리트의 인장거동을 나타내기 위해 인장증강모델을 사용하였다. 철근은 축방향력만을 받는 분포 철근층으로 모델링하였으며 steel liner는 Von Mises 항복규준에 따라 모델링하였다. 열응력은 인접한 두시간 단계에서의 온도차를 하중증가로 고려하여 초기변형 문제로 변환하여 결정되었다. 본 연구에서의 수치해석결과에 의하면 과도온도해석에 근거한 비선형온도경사를 고려할때의 응력이 고려하지 않을때의 응력에 비해 크게 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구는 우리나라에서 많이 건설되고 있는 원자력발전소의 정확하고 진보적인 해석을 위하여 비선형해석 기법을 유도하여 제시하였으며, 특히 온도분포의 비선형성과 재료비선형을 고려한 고급 유한요소해석을 가능케하고 있다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
• /
• 제19권1호
• /
• pp.93-103
• /
• 2006

격납건물은 원자로 사고발생시 방사능물질의 외부 유출을 막는 최후의 방벽이므로 가동 중 원전의 격납건물에 대한 안전성평가는 반드시 수행되어야 된다. 이러한 맥락에서 이 논문은 원전 격납건물의 비선형해석을 위해 탄소성 모델을 바탕으로 개발된 8절점 가변형도 쉘 요소와 이를 이용한 구조물의 비선형해석에 대하여 기술하였다. 비선형해석을 위해 콘크리트의 압축거동에 Drucker-Prager 파괴기준을 적용하였고 파괴포락선의 형상을 결정짓는 재료매개변수는 이축응력 실험으로부터 도출하였다. 개발된 쉘 유한요소는 퇴화 고체기법과 횡 전단변형도를 고려하기 위하여 Reissner-Mindlin(RM)가정을 도입하였고 쉘의 두께가 얇거나, 즉 종횡비가 작거나, 균일하지 않은 유한요소망을 사용할 경우 구조물의 강성이 과대하게 평가되는 묶임현상(locking phenomenon)을 제거하기 위해 본 논문에서는 가변형도법을 도입하였다. 개발된 철근콘크리트 쉘 요소의 성능검증을 위해서 벤치마크 테스트를 수행하였고 그 결과 이 논문에서 도출한 유한요소해석 결과는 실험결과와 잘 일치 하였다

• Computers and Concrete
• /
• 제20권3호
• /
• pp.339-350
• /
• 2017

Dynamic behaviours of reinforced concrete (RC) bending beams subjected to monotonic loading with different loading rates were studied. A dynamic experiment was carried out with the electro-hydraulic servo system manufactured by MTS (Mechanical Testing and Simulation) Systems Corporation to study the effect of loading rates on the mechanical behaviours of RC beams. The monotonic displacement control loading, with loading rates of 0.1 mm/s, 0.5 mm/s, 1 mm/s, 5 mm/s and 10 mm/s, was imposed. According to the test results, the effects of loading rates on the failure model and load-displacement curve of RC beams were investigated. The influences of loading rates on the cracking, ultimate, yield and failure strengths and displacements, ductility and dissipated energy capability of RC beams were studied. Then, the three-dimensional finite element models of RC beams, with the rate-dependent DP (Drucker-Prager) model of concrete and three rate-dependent model of steel reinforcement, were described and verified using the experimental results. Finally, the dynamic mechanical behaviours and deformation behaviours of the numerical results were compared with those of the experimental results.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
• /
• 제10권2호
• /
• pp.225-245
• /
• 2016

Settlement of foundations in permafrost regions primarily results from three physical and mechanical processes such as thaw consolidation of permafrost layer, creep of warm frozen soils and the additional deformation of seasonal active layer induced by freeze-thaw cycling. This paper firstly establishes theoretical models for the three sources of settlement including a statistical damage model for soils which experience cyclic freeze-thaw, a large strain thaw consolidation theory incorporating a modified Richards' equation and a Drucker-Prager yield criterion, as well as a simple rheological element based creep model for frozen soils. A novel numerical method was proposed for live computation of thaw consolidation, creep and freeze-thaw cycling in corresponding domains which vary with heat budget in frozen ground. It was then numerically implemented in the FISH language on the FLAC platform and verified by freeze-thaw tests on sandy clay. Results indicate that the calculated results agree well with the measured data. Finally a model test carried out on a half embankment in laboratory was modeled.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
• /
• 제11권2호
• /
• pp.796-808
• /
• 2019

In this paper, a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method is extended to simulate the ice failure process and ice-ship interactions. The softening elastoplastic model integrating Drucker-Prager yield criterion is embedded into the SPH method to simulate the failure progress of ice. To verify the accuracy of the proposed SPH method, two benchmarks are presented, which include the elastic vibration of a cantilever beam and three-point bending failure of the ice beam. The good agreement between the obtained numerical results and experimental data indicates that the presented SPH method can give the reliable and accurate results for simulating the ice failure progress. On this basis, the extended SPH method is employed to simulate level ice interacting with sloping structure and three-dimensional ice-ship interaction in level ice, and the numerical data is validated through comparing with experimental results of a 1:20 scaled Araon icebreaker model. It is shown the proposed SPH model can satisfactorily predict the ice breaking process and ice breaking resistance on ships in ice-ship interaction.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
• /
• 제51권5호
• /
• pp.727-741
• /
• 2014

The functionally graded beam (FGB) is investigated in this study on both dynamic and static loading in case of resting on a soil medium rather than on the usual Winkler-Pasternak elastic foundation. The powerful ABAQUS software was used to model the problem applying finite element method. In the present study, two different soil models are taken into account. In the first model, the soil is assumed to be an elastic plane stress medium. In the second soil model, the Drucker-Prager yield criterion, which is one of the most well-known elastic-perfectly plastic constitutive models, is used for modelling the soil medium. The results are shown to evaluate the effects of the different soil models, stiffness values of the elastic soil medium on the normal and shear stress and free vibration properties. A comparison was made to those from the existing literature. Numerical results show that considering real soil as a continuum space affects the results of the bending and the modal properties significantly.