ADVANCED TOPICS IN INELASTICITY AND FAILURE OF CONCRETE

Recent developments in physical-mathematical models for studying the mechanical behavior of concrete are explained. The models are based on a systematic application of the mechanics of continuous media, as well as the thermodynamics of the mechanism causing inelastic phenomena on the microstructural level. Attention is focused on non-linear, multiaxial behavior of concrete, as well as creep, shrinkage, and the effects of moisture migration and temperature changes. The book consists of 6 sections. The first section, Non-Linear Triaxial Behaviour and Failure, reviews cartesian tensor factors, variable tangent moduli and secant moduli, plasticity, dilatancy, endochronic theory rate-dependent viscoelasticity. The second section discusses special problems in non-linear multiaxial behavior. The next four sections discuss creep as age- dependent viscoplasticity, the effects of humidity and temperature on long-term reformations, fundamental problems in non-linear structural analysis, and basic problems in creep structural analysis.

• Corporate Authors:

  Cement and Concrete Research Institute

  Drottning Kristinas Vaeg 26
  Stockholm 70,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • Bazant, Z P
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 370 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete; Creep; Deformation; Failure; Humidity; Mathematical models; Mechanical properties; Moisture content; Motion; Nonlinear systems; Plasticity; Shrinkage; Structural analysis; Temperature; Tensor analysis; Thermodynamics; Viscoelasticity
• Uncontrolled Terms: Inelastic deformation; Moisture movement; Nonlinearity
• Old TRIS Terms: Concrete creep; Concrete shrinkage
• Subject Areas: Highways; Materials; I32: Concrete;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00330731
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 12 1981 12:00AM