56.03 Methoden im Bauingenieurwesen
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In der Arbeit wird ein räumliches Materialmodell für den anisotropen Werkstoff Holz vorgestellt. Dessen Leistungsfähigkeit wird durch Verifikationsrechnungen und die Simulation eigener Versuche aufgezeigt. In diesen Versuchen wurde das Tragverhalten spezieller Schubverbindungselemente der Brettstapel-Beton-Verbundbauweise untersucht. Die Kombination eines Brettstapels mit einer schubfest angeschlossenen Betonplatte ist eine vorteilhafte Möglichkeit, Schnittholz mit geringem Querschnitt effektiv in biegebeanspruchten Bauteilen einzusetzen. Es werden die Ergebnisse der experimentellen Untersuchungen zu den Schubverbindungselementen Flachstahlschloss und Nutverbindung vorgestellt. Diese zeichnen sich durch eine über die gesamte Plattenbreite kontinuierliche Übertragung der Schubkraft per Kontaktpressung aus. Vor allem in Brettstapel-Beton-Verbunddecken werden somit ein sehr hoher Verschiebungsmodul sowie eine eminente Tragfähigkeit erreicht. Um mit numerischen Strukturanalysen die in den Versuchen beobachteten Versagensmechanismen adäquat abbilden und realistische Prognosen für das Tragverhalten von Bauteilen oder Verbindungen treffen zu können, muss das physikalisch nichtlineare Verhalten aller beteiligter Baustoffe in die Berechnungen einbezogen werden. Im Rahmen der Dissertation wurde ein auf der Plastizitätstheorie basierendes Materialmodell für Nadelholz hergeleitet und in das FE-Programm ANSYS implementiert, welches die Mikrostruktur des Holzes als verschmierendes Ersatzkontinuum erfasst. Anhand des anatomischen Aufbaus des inhomogenen, anisotropen und porigen Werkstoffs werden die holzspezifischen Versagensmechanismen und die daraus abgeleiteten konstitutiven Beziehungen erläutert. Das ausgeprägt anisotrope Tragverhalten von Holz ist vor allem durch erstaunliche Duktilität bei Stauchung, sprödes Versagen bei Zug- und Schubbeanspruchung und enorme Festigkeitsunterschiede in den Wuchsrichtungen gekennzeichnet. Die Auswirkungen der größtenteils unabhängig voneinander auftretenden, mikromechanischen Versagensmechanismen auf die Spannungs-Verformungsbeziehungen wurden durch die Formulierung adäquater Ver- resp. Entfestigungsfunktionen in Abhängigkeit der Beanspruchungsmodi erfasst. Das dem Materialmodell zu Grunde liegende mehrflächige Fließkriterium berücksichtigt die Interaktion aller sechs Komponenten des räumlichen Spannungszustandes. Die durchgeführten Verifikations- und Simulationsberechnungen belegen, dass der erarbeitete Ansatz sowohl zur Bewertung des Tragvermögens als auch zur Beurteilung von Riss- bzw. Schädigungsursachen von Holzbauteilen eingesetzt werden kann. Die numerische Simulation eröffnet neue, bisher wenig beachtete Möglichkeiten zur Untersuchung komplexer Holzstrukturen sowie Anschlussdetails und wird sich auf Grund der Aussagekraft und Flexibilität auch im Ingenieurholzbau mehr und mehr gegenüber ausschließlich experimenteller Untersuchung durchsetzen.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die experimentellen Ergebnisse eigener Untersuchungen an unbewehrtem und bewehrtem polymermodifiziertem Beton unter mehrfach wiederholter Druck- und Zugbeanspruchung vorgestellt und mit den Ergebnissen ähnlicher Versuche an Normalbeton und hochfestem Beton verglichen. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird dabei dem Formänderungsverhalten, der Steifigkeitsdegradation und der Energiedissipation sowie dem Kriechverhalten und der Mitwirkung des Betons zwischen den Rissen gewidmet. Die beobachtete signifikante Steifigkeitsdegradation sowie der ausgeprägt nichtlineare Zusammenhang zwischen der viskosen Verformung und der elastischen Stauchung zeigen, dass bei der Analyse der Kriech¬aus¬wirkungen des polymermodifizierten Betons auf das Tragverhalten entsprechender Kon¬struktionen neben den Gebrauchslasten auch die während der Lastgeschichte aufgetretenen maximalen Beanspruchungssituationen sowie die damit verbundenen Strukturveränderungen zu berücksichtigen sind. Auf der Basis der Versuchsergebnisse und der visko-elastisch-plastischen Kontinuumsschädigungstheorie werden rheologische Modelle zur Beschreibung des zeit- und beanspruchungsabhängigen Tragverhaltens von Betonbauteile vorgeschlagen. Die numerische Umsetzung der vorgeschlagenen Modelle erfolgt unter Berücksichtigung des zeitabhängigen Materialverhaltens des Betons auf der Basis des HAMILTON-Prinzips unter Vernachlässigung der Trägheitskräfte. Durch eine zeitliche Diskretisierung kann die Problembeschreibung auf das Prinzip von LAGRANGE vom Minimum des Gesamtpotentials zurückgeführt und als nichtlineare Optimierungsaufgabe formuliert werden. Die Simulation des beanspruchungsabhängigen Tragverhaltens von Stahlbetonverbundquerschnitten verdeutlicht die Qualität und Leistungsfähigkeit der vorgeschlagenen Modellbildung.
The development of a consistent material model for textile reinforced concrete requires the formulation and calibration of several sub-models on different resolution scales. Each of these models represents the material structure at the corresponding scale. While the models at the micro-level are able to capture the fundamental failure and damage mechanisms of the material components (e.g. filament rupture and debonding from the matrix) their computational costs limit their application to the small size representative unit cells of the material structure. On the other hand, the macro-level models provide a sufficient performance at the expense of limited range of applicability. Due to the complex structuring of the textile reinforced concrete at several levels (filament - yarn - textile - matrix) it is a non-trivial task to develop a multiscale model from scratch. It is rather more effective to develop a set of conceptually related sub-models for each structural level covering the selected phenomena of the material behavior. The homogenized effective material properties obtained at the lower level may be verified and validated using experiments and models at the higher level(s). In this paper the development of a consistent material model for textile reinforced concrete is presented. Load carrying and failure mechanisms at the micro, meso and macro scales are described and models with the focus on the specified scales are introduced. The models currently being developed in the framework of the collaborative research center are classified and evaluated with respect to the failure mechanisms being captured. The micromechanical modeling of the yarn and bonding behavior is discussed in detail and the correspondence with the experiments focused on the selected failure and interaction mechanisms is shown. The example of modeling the bond layer demonstrates the application of the presented strategy.
The goal of the collaborative research center (SFB 532) >Textile reinforced concrete (TRC): the basis for the development of a new material technology< installed in 1998 at the Aachen University is a complex assessment of mechanical, chemical, economical and productional aspects in an interdisciplinary environment. The research project involves 10 institutes performing parallel research in 17 projects. The coordination of such a research process requires effective software support for information sharing in form of data exchange, data analysis and data archival. Furthermore, the processes of experiment planning and design, modification of material compositions and design parameters and development of new material models in such an environment call for systematic coordination applying the concepts of operational research. Flexible organization of the data coming from several sources is a crucial premise for a transparent accumulation of knowledge and, thus, for a successful research in a long run. The technical information system (TRC-TIS) developed in the SFB 532 has been implemented as a database-powered web server with a transparent definition of the product and process model. It serves as an intranet server with access domains devoted to the involved research groups. At the same time, it allows the presentation of selected results just by granting a data object an access from the public area of the server via internet.
The failure mechanisms of textile reinforced concrete (TRC), which is a composite of bundles of long fibers and fine concrete, are complex. Most important for the ductility is the successive debonding of the fibers from the surrounding matrix when the brittle matrix is cracking. Therefore, one of the main issues is the simulation of the bond behavior between the reinforcement and the matrix. By introducing a hierarchical material model for TRC the mechanical behavior is simulated by means of representative volume elements modelled on the meso scale. Finite element analysis is used to determine the effective properties of TRC within a periodic homogenization framework. Further, a multiscale finite element technique is suggested, where constitutive equation are formulated only on the meso level.
From a macroscopic point of view, failure within concrete structures is characterized by the initiation and propagation of cracks. In the first part of the thesis, a methodology for macroscopic crack growth simulations for concrete structures using a cohesive discrete crack approach based on the extended finite element method is introduced. Particular attention is turned to the investigation of criteria for crack initiation and crack growth. A drawback of the macroscopic simulation is that the real physical phenomena leading to the nonlinear behavior are only modeled phenomenologically. For concrete, the nonlinear behavior is characterized by the initiation of microcracks which coalesce into macroscopic cracks. In order to obtain a higher resolution of this failure zones, a mesoscale model for concrete is developed that models particles, mortar matrix and the interfacial transition zone (ITZ) explicitly. The essential features are a representation of particles using a prescribed grading curve, a material formulation based on a cohesive approach for the ITZ and a combined model with damage and plasticity for the mortar matrix. Compared to numerical simulations, the response of real structures exhibits a stochastic scatter. This is e.g. due to the intrinsic heterogeneities of the structure. For mesoscale models, these intrinsic heterogeneities are simulated by using a random distribution of particles and by a simulation of spatially variable material parameters using random fields. There are two major problems related to numerical simulations on the mesoscale. First of all, the material parameters for the constitutive description of the materials are often difficult to measure directly. In order to estimate material parameters from macroscopic experiments, a parameter identification procedure based on Bayesian neural networks is developed which is universally applicable to any parameter identification problem in numerical simulations based on experimental results. This approach offers information about the most probable set of material parameters based on experimental data and information about the accuracy of the estimate. Consequently, this approach can be used a priori to determine a set of experiments to be carried out in order to fit the parameters of a numerical model to experimental data. The second problem is the computational effort required for mesoscale simulations of a full macroscopic structure. For this purpose, a coupling between mesoscale and macroscale model is developed. Representative mesoscale simulations are used to train a metamodel that is finally used as a constitutive model in a macroscopic simulation. Special focus is placed on the ability of appropriately simulating unloading.
The US Department of Highways is embarked on a very ambitious program to renovate much of the bridges and highways allover the USA. While it is doing so, it is also trying to take advantage of using such program to enhance the research for future programs. One of those projects is a 1000 ft. (305 m) long concrete bridge in the State of Vermont, located in the North East of USA. It is scheduled for renovation, in which the deck and its side parapet walls will be replaced. New England Transportation Consortium (NETC) decided to make further use of this project to find what effect will the heavy demolition tools have on the concrete to remain in place. The goal is to find out the extent of the experimental measurement agreement with the analytical results. In order to accomplish such a goal, numerous strain gages were installed at and in the vicinity of the demolition areas. Those gages will measure the effect of the demolition on the adjacent areas, and how far the destructive effect of the powerful demolition tools can propagate through different parts of the structure. The gages are connected to National Instruments data acquisition equipment, which is connected to a lap top computer to save all the acquired data. The analytical part the project will be using the energy method, which means that the energy applied by the demolition tools should equal the energy absorbed by the demolished structure, in elastic and plastic deformation forms.
The nonlinear behavior of concrete can be attributed to the propagation of microcracks within the heterogeneous internal material structure. In this thesis, a mesoscale model is developed which allows for the explicit simulation of these microcracks. Consequently, the actual physical phenomena causing the complex nonlinear macroscopic behavior of concrete can be represented using rather simple material formulations. On the mesoscale, the numerical model explicitly resolves the components of the internal material structure. For concrete, a three-phase model consisting of aggregates, mortar matrix and interfacial transition zone is proposed. Based on prescribed grading curves, an efficient algorithm for the generation of three-dimensional aggregate distributions using ellipsoids is presented. In the numerical model, tensile failure of the mortar matrix is described using a continuum damage approach. In order to reduce spurious mesh sensitivities, introduced by the softening behavior of the matrix material, nonlocal integral-type material formulations are applied. The propagation of cracks at the interface between aggregates and mortar matrix is represented in a discrete way using a cohesive crack approach. The iterative solution procedure is stabilized using a new path following constraint within the framework of load-displacement-constraint methods which allows for an efficient representation of snap-back phenomena. In several examples, the influence of the randomly generated heterogeneous material structure on the stochastic scatter of the results is analyzed. Furthermore, the ability of mesoscale models to represent size effects is investigated. Mesoscale simulations require the discretization of the internal material structure. Compared to simulations on the macroscale, the numerical effort and the memory demand increases dramatically. Due to the complexity of the numerical model, mesoscale simulations are, in general, limited to small specimens. In this thesis, an adaptive heterogeneous multiscale approach is presented which allows for the incorporation of mesoscale models within nonlinear simulations of concrete structures. In heterogeneous multiscale models, only critical regions, i.e. regions in which damage develops, are resolved on the mesoscale, whereas undamaged or sparsely damage regions are modeled on the macroscale. A crucial point in simulations with heterogeneous multiscale models is the coupling of sub-domains discretized on different length scales. The sub-domains differ not only in the size of the finite elements but also in the constitutive description. In this thesis, different methods for the coupling of non-matching discretizations - constraint equations, the mortar method and the arlequin method - are investigated and the application to heterogeneous multiscale models is presented. Another important point is the detection of critical regions. An adaptive solution procedure allowing the transfer of macroscale sub-domains to the mesoscale is proposed. In this context, several indicators which trigger the model adaptation are introduced. Finally, the application of the proposed adaptive heterogeneous multiscale approach in nonlinear simulations of concrete structures is presented.
A geometrical inclusion-matrix model for the finite element analysis of concrete at multiple scales
(2003)
This paper introduces a method to generate adequate inclusion-matrix geometries of concrete in two and three dimensions, which are independent of any specific numerical discretization. The article starts with an analysis on shapes of natural aggregates and discusses corresponding mathematical realizations. As a first prototype a two-dimensional generation of a mesoscale model is introduced. Particle size distribution functions are analysed and prepared for simulating an adequate three-dimensional representation of the aggregates within a concrete structure. A sample geometry of a three-dimensional test cube is generated and the finite element analysis of its heterogeneous geometry by a uniform mesh is presented. Concluding, aspects of a multiscale analysis are discussed and possible enhancements are proposed.