Cracked Membrane Model with Fixed, Interlocked Cracks: Numerical Implementation and Validation
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 146, Issue 2
Abstract
The cracked membrane model with fixed, interlocked cracks (CMM-F), whose basic concepts were already outlined in this journal more than 20 years ago, is the most general approach for cracked reinforced concrete members subjected to in-plane stresses as long as one set of uniformly spaced cracks is considered and steel and bond stresses are modeled by equivalent, uniformly distributed stresses. However, the CMM-F was not implemented so far, due to the numerical intricacy of the general solution procedure. In this paper, these issues are overcome by determining the variation of steel and concrete stresses and strains between cracks using the tension chord model (TCM), rather than by iteratively integrating over a crack element. After a discussion of the compression field approaches, the TCM and the CMM-F, including the constitutive relationships of concrete and reinforcement and aggregate-interlock models, response predictions obtained from the CMM-F are validated against experimental data. While the agreement is generally good, the predicted stresses at the cracks and the crack kinematics differ significantly between the different aggregate-interlock relationships. These values should be measured in future experiments, using appropriate instrumentation, to validate the aggregate-interlock models.
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Received: Dec 20, 2018
Accepted: Apr 29, 2019
Published online: Nov 29, 2019
Published in print: Feb 1, 2020
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