Evaluation of the behavior of Carbon Short Fiber Reinforced Concrete (CSFRC) based on a multi-sensory experimental investigation and a numerical multiscale approach

  • Carbon fiber reinforcement used in concrete has become a remarkable alternative to steel fibers. Admixing short fibers to fresh concrete and processing the material with a 3D printer leads to an orientation of fibers and a material with high uniaxial strength properties, which offers an economic use of fibers. To investigate its mechanical behavior, the material is subjected to flexural and tensional tests, combining several measuring techniques. Numerical analysis complements this research. Computed tomography is used with several post-processing algorithms for separating matrix and fibers. This helps to validate fiber alignment and serves as input data for numerical analysis with representative volume elements concatenating real fiber position and orientation with the three-dimensional stress tensor. Flexural and uniaxial tensional tests are performed combining multiple measuring techniques. Next to conventional displacement and strain measuring methods, sound emission analysis, inCarbon fiber reinforcement used in concrete has become a remarkable alternative to steel fibers. Admixing short fibers to fresh concrete and processing the material with a 3D printer leads to an orientation of fibers and a material with high uniaxial strength properties, which offers an economic use of fibers. To investigate its mechanical behavior, the material is subjected to flexural and tensional tests, combining several measuring techniques. Numerical analysis complements this research. Computed tomography is used with several post-processing algorithms for separating matrix and fibers. This helps to validate fiber alignment and serves as input data for numerical analysis with representative volume elements concatenating real fiber position and orientation with the three-dimensional stress tensor. Flexural and uniaxial tensional tests are performed combining multiple measuring techniques. Next to conventional displacement and strain measuring methods, sound emission analysis, in terms of quantitative event analysis and amplitude appraisal, and also high-resolution digital image correlation accompany the tests. Due to the electrical conductibility of carbon fibers, the material’s resistivity could be measured during testing. All sensors detect the material’s degradation behavior comparably, showing a strain-hardening effect, which results from multiple, yet locally restricted and distributed, microcracks arising in combination with plastic deformation.show moreshow less

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Author:Philipp Lauff, Polina Pugacheva, Matthias Rutzen, Ursula Weiß, Oliver Fischer, Dirk VolkmerORCiDGND, Malte A. PeterORCiDGND, Christian U. Grosse
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-910656
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/91065
ISSN:1996-1944OPAC
Parent Title (English):Materials
Publisher:MDPI
Type:Article
Language:English
Date of first Publication:2021/11/19
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2021/12/09
Tag:carbon short fiber reinforced concrete; multi-scale modeling; multiple microcracking; RVE; 3D-printed concrete; CT material analysis; acoustic emission
Volume:14
Issue:22
First Page:7005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14227005
Institutes:Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät / Institut für Mathematik
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät / Institut für Physik
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät / Institut für Mathematik / Lehr- und Forschungseinheit Angewandte Analysis
Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät / Institut für Physik / Lehrstuhl für Festkörperchemie
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 51 Mathematik / 510 Mathematik
Licence (German):CC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung (mit Print on Demand)