Nonlinear Unified Strength Criterion for Concrete under Three-Dimensional Stress States
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 136, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper shows that the mechanical behavior of concrete materials can be described by a nonlinear unified strength criterion which requires four independent parameters for model calibration. The criterion covers all the area from spatially mobilized plane curve in the lower bound to Mises circle in the upper bound on the deviatoric plane, with an exponential curve on the meridian plane in principal stress space. Four material parameters in the strength criterion have their clear physical meanings and their determination approaches are also given. Four sets of true triaxial experimental results are compared with the modeling results of the proposed criterion. It shows that the proposed criterion is capable to capture the characteristics of yielding and failure and reasonably calculate the multiaxis strength of concrete materials.
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Acknowledgments
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. NNSFC90715035, NNSFC90715041, NNSFC50809001, NNSFC50878009, and NNSFC90510011) and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. UNSPECIFIED2007CB714203).
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 136 • Issue 1 • January 2010
Pages: 51 - 59
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Received: May 6, 2008
Accepted: Apr 29, 2009
Published online: May 2, 2009
Published in print: Jan 2010
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