Wedge Splitting Test on Fracture Behaviour of Fiber Reinforced and Regular High Performance Concretes

Kamil Hodicky, Thomas Hulin, Jacob Wittrup Schmidt, Henrik Stang

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    Abstract

    The fracture behaviour of three fiber reinforced and regular High Performance Concretes (HPC) is presented in this paper. Two mixes are based on optimization of HPC whereas the third mix was a commercial mix developed by CONTEC ApS (Denmark). The wedge splitting test setup with 48 cubical specimens was used experimentally and the cracked non-linear hinge model based on the fictitious crack model was applied for the interpretation of the results. The stress-crack opening relationships were extracted by using inverse analysis algorithm for various multi-linear softening curves. The fracture mechanics parameters such as crack opening displacement (COD), fracture energy and characteristic length were experimentally determined. Experiments were performed at 1, 3, 7 and 28 days. Fracture energy, Gf, was found to increasing with age, while the characteristic length, Lch, was found to decrease.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of 13th International Conference on Fracture
    Number of pages10
    Publication date2013
    Publication statusPublished - 2013
    Event13th International Conference on Fracture - Beijing, China
    Duration: 16 Jun 201321 Jun 2013
    Conference number: 13
    http://www.icf13.org/

    Conference

    Conference13th International Conference on Fracture
    Number13
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityBeijing
    Period16/06/201321/06/2013
    Internet address

    Keywords

    • High Performance Concrete
    • Wedge Splitting Test
    • Inverse Analysis
    • Fictitious crack model

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