Analysis of Blended Concrete Cubes under Impact loading using ANSYS

Blended concretes, with the partial replacement of the cement with secondary cementitious material like fly ash, rice husk ash, GGBS (Ground Granulated Blast Slag), silica fume etc. are gaining a wide range of applications in civil engineering nowadays. The behaviour of concrete structures has been studied by many researchers under different types of loads like impact load, wind load, earthquake load etc. Impact loading analysis has applications like ship impact resistance design for marine structures, impact-resistant structural design against military and terrorist attacks etc. This study aims to perform a FEM analysis of blended concrete cubes under impact load. Deformation and stress response has been obtained from the velocity impact simulations in ANSYS Explicit dynamics module. Parametric analysis has been done by changing the height of the impactor, shape of the impactor, boundary conditions and partial replacement of cement in the blended concrete with different supplementary cementitious material. It is observed that the strength of the blended concrete cube decreases with an increase in height of the impact.