Validated Uniaxial Stress–Strain Model for Cyclic Analysis of High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Composites
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 148, Issue 9
Abstract
The high cost of manufacturing high-performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCCs) and low confidence in predicting their mechanical properties have limited their widespread use as construction materials. Also, the lack of reliable numerical stress-strain cyclic behavior models prevents the analysis and study of potential industrial applications. In this research, a new uniaxial fiber-reinforced cementitious composite constitutive model (FRCC model in OpenSees) is developed and validated for use in monotonic and cyclic analyses consisting of fiber section finite elements. The model is validated at the material and structural level through correlations of the numerical results with the limited laboratory test data available in the literature, as well as some new experimental results. The quantification of the uncertainties in structural response parameters due to model input parameter uncertainties is conducted via sensitivity analysis. The validation results make the model useful for performance-based assessment and design of civil engineering structures that use HPFRCCs.
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Data Availability Statement
All data, models, and code generated or used during the study are available from the corresponding author upon request.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Bora Gencturk for sharing his test data. The first and second authors would also like to acknowledge the funding provided by the Kearny Faculty Scholar endowment that supported this research work. The opinions and conclusions presented in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsoring organizations.
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Received: Nov 12, 2020
Accepted: Mar 18, 2022
Published online: Jun 30, 2022
Published in print: Sep 1, 2022
Discussion open until: Nov 30, 2022
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