Analise de parametros de tenacidade ao fraturamento de concretos obtidos em ensaios de flexão de vigas

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1997

RESUMO

Concrete is a composite that behaves inelasticaly, with failure characterized by softening. Crack in this kind of material is said to be cohesive. The development of an inelastic process zone ahead of the crack front as well as the formation of the cohesive interface, at laboratory level, are directly infIuenced by the specimen Size. The effect of the specimen scale on the Fracture Energy, Gc, for concrete and other cementitious materials has been addressed by several investigators in the last two decades. Important advances were accomplished towards the validation of models that conduet to the determination of the Fracture Energy, independent1y of the so called Size Effect. In this work the Size Effect on Fracture Energy and Fracture Toughness, Krc, is investigated for plain concrete, using three-point bend tests on specimens with initial through notches. The investigation is conducted using similarbeams, with height varying from 3 cm to 12 cm. The Fracture Toughness is deterrnined using the Two-Parameter Crack Model and the Effective Crack Model suggested by RILEM (Intemational Union ofTesting and Research Laboratories for Materiais and Structures), and the linearization procedure proposed by ISRM (Intemational Society ofRock Mechanics). The Fracture Energy is determined using the Size Effect Model, also proposed by RILEM. The Fracture Toughness values obtained from the laboratory tests to be strongly influenced by the Size Effect, within the range of sizes investigated. In this dissertation the phenomenon of relaxation, observed at peak load under a constant CMOD condition, was investigated and associated to a possible break down of the cohesive interface. Under these circunstances, the lenght of the cohesive interface at peak load was modeled. The results of Fracture Toughness originated from these lengths appear to be almost constant, independently of specimen size

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concreto - propriedades mecanicas mecanica da fratura flexão (engenharia civil)

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