Concrete Material Models

Concrete_1: Concrete Model with No Tensile Strength

INPUT

Concrete_1, matID
f c¢ , e 0 , f cu , e u

Definitions (Fig. 1):

fc′ : concrete compressive strength at 28 days (compression is negative)

A 0 : concrete strain at maximum strength (compression is negative)
f cu : concrete crushing strength (compression is negative)
A u : concrete strain at crushing strength (compression is negative)

fc′
6

5
STRESS [ksi]

3
ε0

2
fcu
1

εu
0
0 0.002 0.004 0.006 0.008 0.01 0.012 0.014
STRAIN [in/in]

Figure 1. Material Parameters of Monotonic Compression Envelope of Concrete_1 Model

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5
Concrete Stress [ksi]

0
-0.002 0.000 0.002 0.004 0.006 0.008 0.010 0.012 0.014 0.016

Concrete Strain [in/in]

Figure 2. Typical Hysteretic Stress-Strain Relation of Concrete_1 Model

Concrete_2: Concrete Model with Tensile Strength and Linear Tension Softening

INPUT

Concrete_2, matID
f c¢ , e 0 , f cu , e u , l , f t , Ets

Definitions (Fig. 3):

fc′ : concrete compressive strength at 28 days (compression is negative)

A 0 : concrete strain at maximum strength (compression is negative)
f cu : concrete crushing strength (compression is negative)
A u : concrete strain at crushing strength(compression is negative)
E
λ= u
Ec
ft : tensile strength
Ets : tension softening stiffness (absolute value)
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Ec f ′
c
6

4
STRESS [ksi]

2
εu
fcu
ε0
0
Ets
ft
Eu
-2

-4
-0.01 -0.005 0 0.005 0.01 0.015
STRAIN [in/in]

Figure 3. Material Parameters of Monotonic Envelopes of Concrete_2 Model

5
Concrete Stress [ksi]

-1
-0.002 0.000 0.002 0.004 0.006 0.008 0.010 0.012 0.014 0.016
Concrete Strain [in/in]

Figure 4. Typical Hysteretic Stress-Strain Relation of Concrete_2 Model

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Concrete Stress [ksi] 5

-1
-0.005 -0.004 -0.003 -0.002 -0.001 0.000 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.004 0.005
Concrete Strain [in/in]

Figure 5. Hysteretic Stress-Strain Relation of Concrete_2 Model in Tension-Compression

1.0

0.8

0.6

0.4
Stress [ksi]

0.2

0.0

-0.2

-0.4

-0.6
-0.005 -0.004 -0.003 -0.002 -0.001 0.000 0.001 0.002 0.003

Strain [in/in]

Figure 6. Hysteretic Stress-Strain Relation of Concrete_2 Model

in Tension-Compression (Detail)
Concrete_3: Concrete Model with Tensile Strength and Nonlinear Tension Softening

INPUT

Concrete_3, matID
f c¢ , e 0 , f cu , e u , l
f t , A t1 , f t1 , > , A tu

Definitions:

fc′ : concrete compressive strength at 28 days (Fig. 3) (compression is negative)

A 0 : concrete strain at maximum strength (Fig. 3) (compression is negative)
f cu : concrete crushing strength (compression is negative)
A u : concrete strain at crushing strength (Fig. 3) (compression is negative)
E
l = u (Fig. 3)
Eco
ft : tensile strength (Fig. 7)
A t1 : tensile strain at transition from nonlinear to linear softening branch (Fig. 7)
ft1 : tensile stress at transition from nonlinear to linear softening branch (Fig. 7)
> : exponent of nonlinear softening branch (Fig. 7)
A tu : tensile strain at zero tensile stress (Fig. 7)
 0.6

ft
0.5

0.4
Exponent β
STRESS [ksi]

0.3

0.2

ft 1
0.1 A tu

A t1
0
0 0.0005 0.001 0.0015 0.002 0.0025
STRAIN [in/in]

Figure 7. Material Parameters of Tension Envelope of Concrete_3 Model

4
Stress [ksi]

-1
-0.005 -0.004 -0.003 -0.002 -0.001 0.000 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.004

Strain [in/in]

Figure 8. Hysteretic stress-strain relation of Concrete_3 model in Tension-Compression

 1.0

0.8

0.6

0.4
Stress [ksi]

0.2

0.0

-0.2

-0.4

-0.6
-0.005 -0.004 -0.003 -0.002 -0.001 0.000 0.001 0.002 0.003

Strain [in/in]

Figure 9. Hysteretic stress-strain relation of Concrete_3 model

in Tension-Compression (Detail)
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Concrete_1
5
Concrete_2

4
Concrete Stress [ksi]

-1
-0.002 0.000 0.002 0.004 0.006 0.008 0.010 0.012 0.014 0.016
Concrete Strain [in/in]

Figure 10. Comparison of Hysteretic Behavior of Concrete_1 and Concrete_2 model