Hygro-thermo-mechanical analysis of spalling in concrete walls at high temperatures as a moving boundary problem

Numerical Simulation of Concrete Exposed to High Temperature – Damage and Explosive Spalling

In the present paper a fully coupled three-dimensional thermo-hygro-mechanical model for concrete is discussed and used in the numerical studies. The model is formulated in the framework of continuum mechanics based on the principles of irreversible thermodynamics. Distribution of moisture, pore pressure, temperature, stresses and strains are calculated by employing a three-dimensional transien...

A Model for Concrete at High Temperatures

Prediction of concrete performance at high temperatures is of great importance, in particular for safety evaluation of concrete structures in fires in tunnels and high buildings or in thermal hazard situations like hypothetical core disruptive nuclear accidents. High temperatures induce strong physical and chemical changes in the micro-structure of concrete that affect its mechanical behaviour....

Analysis of coupled transport phenomena in concrete at elevated temperatures

In this paper, we study a non-linear numerical scheme arising from the implicit time discretization of the Bažant-Thonguthai model for hygro-thermal behavior of concrete at high temperatures. Existence of the time-discrete solution in two dimensions is established using the theory of pseudomonotone operators in Banach spaces. Next, the spatial discretization is accomplished by the conforming fi...

Thermo-hygro-chemo-mechanical Model of Concrete at Early Ages and Its Extension to Tumor Growth Numerical Analysis

Stress Redistribution Analysis of Piezomagnetic Rotating Thick-Walled Cylinder with Temperature-and Moisture-Dependent Material Properties

In this article, the problem of time-dependent stress redistribution of a piezomagnetic rotating thick-walled cylinder under an axisymmetric hygro-thermo-magneto-electro-mechanical loading is analyzed analytically for the condition of plane strain. Using the constitutive equations, a differential equation is found in which there are creep strains. Primarily, eliminating creep strains, an analyt...