Effect Of Thermomechanical Coupling On Localized Damage Of Concrete
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Free (open access)
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Volume
23
Pages
10
Published
1999
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786 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/BT990551
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
C.E. Majorana and F. Pesavento
Abstract
Thermomechanical coupling in localized damage of concrete is investigated in this paper. Concrete is here treated as a porous material where hygro-thermic and mechanical effects at high temperature are considered. For this purpose a fully coupled model with non-linearities due to high temperatures are included. It is shown the importance of such a kind of coupling. 1 Introduction Concrete is treated as multiphase system where the voids of the skeleton are filled partly with liquid- and partly with a gas-phase. When temperatures higher than standard ones are considered, several non-linear phenomena must be taken into account. Such phenomena involve not only heat conduction and vapour diffusion, but also liquid water
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