• Computers and Concrete
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• 제2권5호
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• pp.345-366
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• 2005

This work presents an assessment of the computational performance of a vector-parallel implementation of probabilistic model for concrete cracking in 3D. This paper shows the continuing efforts towards code optimization as reported in earlier works Paz, et al. (2002a,b and 2003). The probabilistic crack approach is based on the direct Monte Carlo method. Cracking is accounted by means of 3D interface elements. This approach considers that all nonlinearities are restricted to interface elements modeling cracks. The heterogeneity governs the overall cracking behavior and related size effects on concrete fracture. Computational kernels in the implementation are the inexact Newton iterative driver to solve the non-linear problem and a preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) driver to solve linearized equations, using an element by element (EBE) strategy to compute matrix-vector products. In particular the paper analyzes code behavior using OpenMP directives in parallel vector processors (PVP), such as the CRAY SV1 and CRAY T94. The impact of the memory architecture on code performance, and also some strategies devised to circumvent this issue are addressed by numerical experiment.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.11-23
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• 2019

Nowadays, the characterization of Ultra-High Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) tensile behavior still remains a challenge for researchers. For this purpose, a simplified closed-form non-linear hinge model based on the Third Point Bending Test (ThirdPBT) was developed by the authors. This model has been used as the basis of a simplified inverse analysis methodology to derive the tensile material properties from load-deflection response obtained from ThirdPBT experimental tests. In this paper, a non-linear finite element model (FEM) is presented with the objective of validate the closed-form non-linear hinge model. The state determination of the closed-form model is straightforward, which facilitates further inverse analysis methodologies to derive the tensile properties of UHPFRC. The accuracy of the closed-form non-linear hinge model is validated by a robust non-linear FEM analysis and a set of 15 Third-Point Bending tests with variable depths and a constant slenderness ratio of 4.5. The numerical validation shows excellent results in terms of load-deflection response, bending curvatures and average longitudinal strains when resorting to the discrete crack approach.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.67-82
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• 2007

The discrete crack-concept is applied to study the 3D propagation of tensile-dominated failure in plain concrete. To this end the Partition of Unity Finite Element Method (PUFEM) is utilized and the strong discontinuity approach is followed. A consistent linearized implementation of the PUFEM is combined with a predictor-corrector algorithm to track the crack path, which leads to a robust numerical description of concrete cracking. The proposed concept is applied to study concrete failure during the PCT3D test and the predicted numerical results are compared to experimental data. The proposed numerical concept provides a clear interface for constitutive models and allows an investigation of their impact on concrete cracking under 3D conditions, which is of significant scientific interests to interpret results from 3D experiments.

• 콘크리트학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.145-153
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• 1996

콘크리트의 파괴진행영역은 콘크리트의 균열선단의 브리징영역과 미세균열영역으로 구성되는 비선형영역으로서 콘크리트의 파기거동을 지배한다. 파괴진행영역을 고려한 파괴역학은 콘크리트에 유용하게 적용될 수 있으며 파괴진행영역 모델의 개발은 콘크리트의 파괴현상을 규명하는데 매우 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 콘크리트의 균열진행을 해석하기 위하여 선형 인장 연화곡선을 사용한 Dugdale-Barenblatt형 모델로 콘크리트의 브리징영역을 모델링하였고 이를 이산균열방법을 사용하여 단지 요소경계면에 파괴진행영역을 발생시켜 유한요소 해석하는 방법과 요소내의 불연속 균열면을 도입한 균열요소를 사용함으로써 이산균열방법의 결점을 보완한 해석방법을 제시하였다. 또한 해석 예를 통해 균열진행해석에 사용된 유한요소모델을 검증하였다.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.365-386
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• 2010

This paper presents the physical formulation of a 1D material model suitable for seismic applications. It is written within the framework of thermodynamics with internal variables that is, especially, very efficient for the phenomenological representation of material behaviors at macroscale: those of the representative elementary volume. The model can reproduce the main characteristics observed for concrete, that is nonsymetric loading rate-dependent (viscoelasticity) behavior with appearance of permanent deformations and local hysteresis (continuum plasticity), stiffness degradation (continuum damage), cracking due to displacement localization (discrete plasticity or damage). The parameters have a clear physical meaning and can thus be easily identified. Although this point is not detailed in the paper, this material model is developed to be implemented in a finite element computer program. Therefore, for the benefit of the robustness of the numerical implementation, (i) linear state equations (no local iteration required) are defined whenever possible and (ii) the conditions in which the presented model can enter the generalized standard materials class - whose elements benefit from good global and local stability properties - are clearly established. To illustrate the capabilities of this model - among them for Earthquake Engineering applications - results of some numerical applications are presented.

• 콘크리트학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.149-156
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• 1995

경량기포콘크리트(ALC : Autoclaved Lightweight Concrete)의 내구성을 개선하기 위하여 투숩 및 투수, 편면동결융해 특성과 탄산화 특성을 실험하였다. 국산 ALC전용마감재는 방수용 도장재에 가까운 투습 및 투수성질을 갖고 있어 특성의 개선이 요구된다. 편면동결융해시험에서 마감재의 투습도에 따른 열화위치는 투습도가 클수록 외측에서 발생하였으나 투수에 의한 외부의 박리열화는 관찰되자 않았다. 탄산화는 수분의 함량이 작을수록 빠르게 진행되었으며 탄산화가 진행됨에 따라 기공량은 감소하였다. 탄산화가 완전히 진행되면 부피의 팽창으로 균열이 발생하였다.

• 콘크리트학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.201-214
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• 1994

본 연구는 콘크리트용 혼화재로서 우리나라에 풍부한 천연 실리카 질 광물을 이용하여 콘크리트의 강도증진 가능성 및 유용성과 경제적인 효율성에 대해 검토한 것이다. 제반 실험을 통해 얻어진 결론을 요약하면 다음과 같다. \circled1 최적의 제오라이트 치환율은 단위 시멘트당 5~10% 정도를 나타났으며, 그 때의 강도 증진율은 무첨가 콘크리트 값에 비해 대체적으로 40%정도의 강도증진 효과를 얻었다. \circled2 최적의 이암 치환율은 단위 시멘트량당 10~15% 정도로 나타났으며, 그때의 강도 증진율은 무첨가 콘크리트 값에 비해 대체적으로 10%정도의 강도증진 효과를 얻었다. 이러한 검토로부터 우리는 혼화재로서 콘크리트의 강도성능의 향상을 목적으로 기존의 실리카 흄, 플라이 애쉬 등의 대체품으로 천연 실리카 광물을 활용할 수 있다는 결론을 얻었다.