Mechanical Properties of Concrete Materials Reinforced With Polypropylene or Polyethylene Fibers

10.14359/4018 ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 89 (6) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Concrete Materials ◽  
Polyethylene Fibers

Meso-Analysis of Dynamic Compressive Behavior of Recycled Aggregate Concrete Using BFEM

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (06) ◽  
pp. 1950013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liping Ying ◽  
Yijiang Peng ◽  
Hongming Yang
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Dynamic Mechanical Properties ◽  
Recycled Concrete ◽  
Recycled Aggregate Concrete ◽  
Recycled Aggregate ◽  
Aggregate Concrete ◽  
Dynamic Mechanical ◽  
Concrete Materials ◽  
Dynamic Damage

In this paper, the base force element method (BFEM) for dynamic damage problems is proposed. And the BFEM model was applied to investigate the dynamic mechanical behavior of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC). Any convex polygon recycled aggregate was simulated. A constitutive relationship of dynamic damage was given. The compression test under dynamic loadings on the recycled concrete specimen was simulated. The stress–strain softening curve, variation law of dynamic enhancement coefficient and the damage pattern were researched under different strain rates. The dynamic properties of recycled concrete materials at high strain rate are also studied. The effect of different aggregate distribution on the mechanical properties of concrete was studied. The results of dynamic calculation of recycled concrete materials by this method are compared with the experimental results. The numerical simulation results are in good agreement with the experimental results. The comparative analysis on the dynamic mechanical properties of RAC and natural aggregate concrete (NAC) was also studied. The results show that the BFEM can be used to analyze the dynamic mechanical properties of RAC and NAC under high strain rate, and can be used for large-scale engineering calculations.

scholarly journals Thermal properties of polypropylene and high modulus polyethylene fibers reinforced concretes

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
J. C. AMARAL JR ◽  
W. G. MORAVIA
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Thermal Conductivity ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Thermal Expansion ◽  
Thermal Properties ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Polymer Fibers ◽  
High Modulus ◽  
Modulus Polyethylene ◽  
Polyethylene Fibers

Abstract Concrete is one of the materials most used by the construction industry. Reinforcing this material with fibers is a technique used to improve its mechanical properties. Steel and polymer fibers are the main types used in this application and there are few studies about the influence of polymer fibers on the thermal properties of concrete. In order to analyze this influence, the present work carried out thermal conductivity, thermal expansion, and compressive strength after exposure to a temperature of 200 °C on specimens made of concrete with addition of polypropylene (PP) fibers and concrete with addition of high modulus polyethylene (HMPE). It was also conducted thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) on PP and HMPE fibers. The results show that the addition of polymer fibers alters the thermal properties of the concrete, reducing its thermal expansion, for example.

scholarly journals Effect of Metallic Inclusions on the Compressive Strength of Cement-Based Materials

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Tomáš Ficker
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Mechanical Stability ◽  
Transition Zones ◽  
Metallic Inclusions ◽  
Cement Based Materials ◽  
Concrete Materials ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Critical Limits

In the concrete foundations, materials come into contact with bedrocks. The surfaces of bedrocks are often covered by sharp protrusions called asperities. Although geotechnical engineers have developed a reliable theory for assessing the mechanical stability of rocky terrains, the stability of transition zones between concrete and sharp asperities remains unsolved. Due to the large pressures that exist in these transition zones, the invasive influence of sharp asperities on the integrity of the concrete raises a question about possible changes of the mechanical properties of concrete materials used in foundations. These circumstances have inspired experiments in which metallic needles of various lengths have been embedded into cement-based materials to assess the influence of the needles on the compressive strength. This influence has been quantified, and the critical limits identifying the changes of material integrity have been determined. It has been conjectured that sharp rock asperities or needle-like rods of steel reinforcement in concrete may cause similar changes of material integrity as the metallic needles used in the experiments performed.

Effects of Finite Lengths of Chains on the Structural and Mechanical Properties of Polyethylene Fibers

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
In-Chul Yeh ◽  
Luigi Balzano ◽  
Harm van der Werff ◽  
Randy A. Mrozek ◽  
Joseph L. Lenhart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Polyethylene Fibers

Modeling of heterogeneous materials at high strain rates with machine learning algorithms trained by finite element simulations

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150001
Author(s):  
Xu Long ◽  
Minghui Mao ◽  
Changheng Lu ◽  
Ruiwen Li ◽  
Fengrui Jia
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
High Strain ◽  
Dynamic Strength ◽  
Dynamic Mechanical Properties ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
High Strain Rates ◽  
Dynamic Mechanical ◽  
Concrete Materials ◽  
Meso Scale

Great progress has been made in the dynamic mechanical properties of concrete which is usually assumed to be homogenous. In fact, concrete is a typical heterogeneous material, and the meso-scale structure with aggregates has a significant effect on its macroscopic mechanical properties of concrete. In this paper, concrete is regarded as a two-phase composite material, that is, a combination of aggregate inclusion and mortar matrix. To create the finite element (FE) models, the Monte Carlo method is used to place the aggregates as random inclusions into the mortar matrix of the cylindrical specimens. To validate the numerical simulations of such an inclusion-matrix model at high strain rates, the comparisons with experimental results using the split Hopkinson pressure bar are made and good agreement is achieved in terms of dynamic increasing factor. By performing more extensive FE predictions, the influences of aggregate size and content on the macroscopic dynamic properties (i.e., peak dynamic strength) of concrete materials subjected to high strain rates are further investigated based on the back-propagation (BP) artificial neural network method. It is found that the particle size of aggregate has little effect on the dynamic mechanical properties of concrete but the peak dynamic strength of concrete increases obviously with the content increase of aggregate. After detailed comparisons with FE simulations, machine learning predictions based on the BP algorithm show good applicability for predicting dynamic mechanical strength of concrete with different aggregate sizes and contents. Instead of FE analysis with complicated meso-scale aggregate pre-processing, time-consuming simulation and laborious post-processing, machine learning predictions reproduce the stress–strain curves of concrete materials under high strain rates and thus the constitutive behavior can be efficiently predicted.

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