the main objective of this study is to drive a simple solution for prediction of steel fiber reinforced concrete (sfrc) behavior under four point bending test (fpbt). in this model all the force components at the beam section (before and after cracking) are formulated by applying these assumptions: a bilinear elastic-perfectly plastic stress-strain response for concrete behavior in compression,...

In a unified approach, the virtual work equations in rate form and in incremental forms are derived rigorously for elastic-plastic continuum subjected to large strains. T h e finite element p r d u r e s for the analyses of clastic-plastic solid b a d on Lee’s theory and the Green-Naghdi theory arc presented. Also, i t i s shown that transformations can be performed among the Eulerian, the Tota...

The application of the finite element method to the inelastic analysis of structures and continua has received considerable attention over the last fifteen years [ 1-21 ]. To a large extent, this effort has been motivated by the need to safety and economically predict material response under conditions of extreme mechanical and thermal loading. Some examples are the design and analysis of press...

The indentation slope curve from a spherical indentation on elastic-plastic materials is examined. By comparing it with that of an linear elastic material of the same elastic properties, we found that the start point of plastic yielding for an elastic-plastic material can be easily located from the indentation slope curve. Based on this analysis, a simple but effective method is proposed tomeas...

Fractal patterns are observed in computational mechanics of elastic-plastic transitions in two models of linear elastic/perfectly plastic random heterogeneous materials: (1) a composite made of locally isotropic grains with weak random fluctuations in elastic moduli and/or yield limits and (2) a polycrystal made of randomly oriented anisotropic grains. In each case, the spatial assignment of ma...

Elastic-plastic crack-tip fields and constraint levels in bending specimens under large-scale yielding (LSY) are examined. The J − A2 three-term solution is modified by introducing an additional term caused by the global bending. Three different methods, i.e. two-point matching, constant A2 and elastic stress estimation method, are proposed to determine the fourth term. It is shown that the ela...

An elastic-plastic model for contacting rough surfaces that is based on accurate Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of an elasticplastic single asperity contact is presented. The plasticity index Ψ is shown to be the main dimensionless parameter that affects the contact of rough surfaces. Below Ψ = 0.6 the contact problem is purely elastic and above Ψ = 8 it is mostly plastic. The mean real contact ...

The double impulse is introduced as a substitute of the fling-step near-fault ground motion and a critical elastic–plastic response of a two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) building structure under the “critical double impulse” is evaluated. Since only the free-vibration appears under such double impulse, the energy balance approach plays an important and essential role in the derivation of the soluti...

A dynamic stability criterion for elastic–plastic structures under near-fault ground motions is derived in closed form. A negative post-yield stiffness is treated in order to consider the P-delta effect. The double impulse is used as a substitute of the fling-step near-fault ground motion. Since only the free vibration appears under such double impulse, the energy approach plays a critical role...