Deflection-based failure probability analysis of low shrinkage-creep concrete structures in presence of non-stationary evolution of shrinkage and creep uncertainties

Y Yang, Z Liu, H Tang, J Peng - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Reasonable assessment of the failure probability caused by long-term deflection is essential
to ensure the service performance of low shrinkage-creep concrete (LSCC) structures. In this …

A Meso-scale study to predict high-temperature behavior of concrete structures in a hygral-thermal-chemical-mechanical framework

B Pal, A Ramaswamy - Construction and Building Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Fire has become one of the common hazards that a concrete structure faces in today's world.
Considering the heterogeneity of concrete and the contrasting nature of the constituents at …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of sulfoaluminate expansive additive on mechanical properties, internal relative humidity, and shrinkage of early-age mortar

S Liang, Y Liu, G Song, H Yan, B Song, J Liu - Case Studies in Construction …, 2023 - Elsevier
Incorporating a suitable amount of sulfoaluminate expansive additive (SEA) into
cementitious materials can compensate the shrinkage deformation. However, the influence …

[HTML][HTML] Destructive effect of train load on rust-cracked sleepers at mesoscopic scale

Z Wang, H Jin, D Yin - Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Under the coupling effect of environment and stray current, concrete railway sleepers will
have rust and cracks. The dynamic load of trains exacerbates the crack propagation in the …

Failure behavior of an adaptive concrete beam with integrated fluidic actuators: non-linear three-dimensional finite element analysis

S Gambarelli, RN Fararoni Platas, A Shankar… - Frontiers in Built …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In the present study, the adaptive behavior of a concrete beam with integrated fluidic
actuators was numerically investigated through three-dimensional (3D) non-linear finite …

Mesoscale modeling of size effect of BFRP-reinforced concrete columns under pure torsion

L Jin, H Zhu, Y Lei, X Du - Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 2023 - Springer
There have been few studies regarding the torsional behavior of FRP-reinforced concrete
members. Only the CSA S806-12 and the ACI 440.11-22 codes specify the design criteria for …

An image-based meso-scale model for the hygro-mechanical time-dependent analysis of concrete

S Zhang, E Hamed, C Song - Computational Mechanics, 2023 - Springer
A new computational framework is developed in this paper for investigating the time-
dependent behaviour of concrete including creep, shrinkage and cracking. The developed …