Interactive Effect of Mechanical Fatigue Load and the Fatigue Effect of Freeze-Thaw on Combined Damage of Concrete
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 27, Issue 8
Abstract
The combined attack of (1) mechanical fatigue load, and (2) freeze-thaw, can lead to premature deterioration of concrete materials in cold climate regions. The interactive effect of these two loads on the damage of concrete was studied numerically and experimentally. First, experiments were conducted for proof-of-concept of the numerical analysis. A numerical model was then constructed from the view that fatigue damage induces preferentially permeable concrete locally, which can lead to degraded stiffness by freeze-thaw effect and thus more fatigue damage. The numerical results demonstrated that the crack length decreased with the degree of freeze-thaw damage but the crack width, in contrast, increased. The experimental results agreed generally with the numerical results for more saturated conditions considering that the potential transport events of moisture and the heterogeneous microstructure should be included. The research reported in this paper sheds light on how mechanical load and environmental factors interact with each other in this complicated system to result in the ultimate failure of cement-based materials.
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Acknowledgments
The writers gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51308407 and 51278360), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2013KJ095), the Open Funding of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials of Jiangsu (CM2014-02), and the Open Funding of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials of the Ministry of Education (201303). The writers appreciate the assistance of Bangtu Ye for work in casting/cutting the specimens while working as a graduate assistant who was funded on this project.
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