Author(s)

V.P. Panoskaltsis, K.-D. Papoulia & S. Bahuguna

Abstract

The effect of rate of loading on the entire deformation history of concrete materials, including plastic damage, is considered. Energy dissipation in the linear (viscoelastic) range is described. One-dimensional results are presented and comparison is made with experimental results in tension, at different rates, from quasistatic to impact. Introduction A viscoelastic-plastic model in series (i.e. with an additive strain decomposition) was proposed by Panoskaltsis et al. [1], [2] for the description of concrete materials up to and beyond failure, including the effect of rate. The additive decomposition of the strain (as opposed

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