Performance Dependent Failure Criterion for Normal- and High-Strength Concretes
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 135, Issue 12
Abstract
A new approach to describe the maximum strength criterion of concretes with different strength capacities is formulated. The proposed failure criterion incorporates the so-called “performance parameter” that controls the dependence of the maximum strength on the concrete quality. To assure the feasibility of the solution procedure for any possible set of known data, different methods are proposed to determine according to the available material data. The performance dependent strength criterion presented in this work is expressed in terms of the Haigh Westergaard stress coordinates and as a function of four material parameters that fully define the compressive and tensile meridians of the failure criterion. The variation of the shear strength between these two meridians follows an earlier elliptic interpolation. The proposal includes approximating functions that define the dependence of the above mentioned four material parameters on the two fundamental mechanical properties of concrete: the uniaxial compressive strength and the performance parameter . The capability of the proposed criterion to predict peak stresses of both normal- and high-strength concretes is verified with experimental data available in the literature corresponding to uniaxial, biaxial, and triaxial compression tests.
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Acknowledgments
The writers gratefully acknowledge the partial financial support of this work by the “Universidad de Buenos Aires,” Argentina (UBACYT 2006–2009 Project I813).
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Received: Mar 6, 2008
Accepted: Sep 18, 2008
Published online: Nov 13, 2009
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