MICROPLANE MODEL M4 FOR CONCRETE. I: FORMULATION WITH WORK-CONJUGATE DEVIATORIC STRESS

The first part of this two-part study presents a new improved microplane constitutive model for concrete, representing the fourth version in the line of microplane models developed at Northwestern University. The constitutive law is characterized as a relation between the normal, volumetric, deviatoric, and shear stresses and strains on planes of various orientations, called the microplanes. The strain components on the microplanes are the projections of the continuum strain tensor, and the continuum stresses are obtained from the microplane stress components according to the principle of virtual work. The improvements include a work-conjugate volumetric deviatoric splitthe main improvement, facilitating physical interpretation of stress components; additional horizontal boundaries (yield limits) for the normal and deviatoric microplane stress components, making it possible to control the curvature at the peaks of stress-strain curves; an improved nonlinear frictional yield surface with plasticity asymptote; a simpler and more effective fitting procedure with sequential identification of material parameters; a method to control the steepness and tail length of postpeak softening; and damage modeling with a reduction of unloading stiffness and crack-closing boundary. The second part of this study, which is also contained in this journal issue, presents an algorithm for implementing the model in structural analysis programs and provides experimental

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• Authors:
  • Bazant, Z P
  • Caner, F C
  • Carol, I
  • Adley, M D
  • Akers, S A
• Publication Date: 2000-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 944-953
• Serial:
  • Journal of Engineering Mechanics
  • Volume: 126
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-9399
  • EISSN: 1943-7889
  • Serial URL: http://ascelibrary.org/journal/jenmdt

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Biaxial stress; Concrete; Continuum (Mathematics); Cracking; Deformation curve; Deviatoric stress; Fracture mechanics; Plasticity; Shear stress; Stiffness; Strain (Mechanics); Stresses; Tensor analysis; Triaxial shear tests; Uniaxial stress; Volumetric analysis; Yield strength
• Uncontrolled Terms: Constitutive models; Microplane models
• Subject Areas: Highways; Materials; I32: Concrete;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00798481
• Record Type: Publication
• Contract Numbers: DACA39-94-C-0025, CMS-9713944, CMS-9732791
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 2000 12:00AM