Coupled Mechanical and Chemical Damage in Calcium Leached Cementitious Structures

Long-term durability of concrete structures must be faced both from the point of view of cracking and physical degradations. In this paper, the relevance and the sensitivity of an existing constitutive relation aimed at modeling mechanical and chemical damage is examined. This constitutive relation...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of engineering mechanics 2003-03, Vol.129 (3), p.333-341
Hauptverfasser: Le Bellégo, Caroline, Pijaudier-Cabot, Gilles, Gérard, Bruno, Dubé, Jean-François, Molez, Laurent
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Zusammenfassung:Long-term durability of concrete structures must be faced both from the point of view of cracking and physical degradations. In this paper, the relevance and the sensitivity of an existing constitutive relation aimed at modeling mechanical and chemical damage is examined. This constitutive relation is based on a scalar continuum damage model. The chemical degradation mechanism is calcium leaching. It is observed that the model predictions, i.e., the lifetime of cement-based beams subjected to leaching, are very sensitive on the tensile strength and fracture energy of the sound material. The existing model predicts the response of bending beams subjected to various states of leaching prior to any mechanical loading. The simulation of the size effect tests shows that the mechanical internal length and the damage threshold of the material cannot be considered to be constant. The internal length ought to decrease and the damage threshold should increase.
ISSN:0733-9399
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DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9399(2003)129:3(333)