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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Mater.
Sec. Structural Materials
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmats.2024.1505295
This article is part of the Research Topic Static and Dynamic Performance Analysis of Structures and Materials Under Complex Loads and Environmental Excitation View all 9 articles

Fatigue damage analysis of plain and steel fiber-reinforced concrete material based on a stiffness degradation microplane model

Provisionally accepted
Changjin Qin Changjin Qin 1Xiaogang Dong Xiaogang Dong 2Biao Wu Biao Wu 2Lidong Cai Lidong Cai 2Shaohua Wang Shaohua Wang 2Qing Xia Qing Xia 1*
  • 1 South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
  • 2 China Construction Third Bureau First Engineering Co, Ltd, Hubei, China

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    Steel fiber-reinforced concrete material has garnered significant attention in structure design due to its excellent resistance to fatigue damage. The application of the plain concrete microplane model is extended to steel fiber-reinforced concrete by modifying the stress-strain boundary conditions on the microplane and then extended to fatigue damage analysis by considering fatigue-related material stiffness, mainly concerned with tensile damage., mainly concerned with tensile damage. The normal positive strain on the micro-plane is regarded as the fatigue variable, and the fatigue history variable is the accumulation of the fatigue variable during the loading. The relationship between the fatigue history variable and the material stiffness fatigue degradation function is established. In the numerical implementation, the crack band model is combined to reduce the mesh sensitivity caused by strain localization. During the numerical simulation, the parameters of plain concrete, steel fiber-reinforced concrete, and the material fatigue degradation function can be calibrated sequentially, requiring only a few benchmark tests for accurate parameter calibration. The numerical results show that this model can be used for the fatigue damage analysis of plain concrete and steel fiber-reinforced concrete material. It is expected to be used for the refined analysis of concrete structures under complex loading conditions and structural forms in the future, providing convenience to engineering design, evaluation, and optimization.

    Keywords: material stiffness degradation, Fatigue damage, Plain concrete, Steel fiber-reinforced concrete, Microplane model

    Received: 02 Oct 2024; Accepted: 04 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Qin, Dong, Wu, Cai, Wang and Xia. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Qing Xia, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

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