Xiaozhou Xia1, Changsheng Qin1, Guangda Lu2, Xin Gu1,*, Qing Zhang1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.3, pp. 2257-2276, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.031238
- 15 December 2023
Abstract Accurate simulation of the cracking process caused by rust expansion of reinforced concrete (RC) structures plays an intuitive role in revealing the corrosion-induced failure mechanism. Considering the quasi-brittle fracture of concrete, the fracture phase field driven by the compressive-shear term is constructed and added to the traditional brittle fracture phase field model. The rationality of the proposed model is verified by a mixed fracture example under a shear displacement load. Then, the extended fracture phase model is applied to simulate the corrosion-induced cracking process of RC. The cracking patterns caused by non-uniform corrosion expansion are… More >