Following the formulation of the constitutive model in the preceding Part I in this issue, the present Part II addresses the problems of computational algorithm and convergence of iterations. Typical numerical responses are demonstrated and the parameters of the model are calibrated by test data from the literature. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9399(2005)131:1(41) CE Database subject headings: Concr...

Efficient numerical finite-element analysis of creeping concrete structures requires the use of Kelvin or Maxwell chain models, which are most conveniently identified from a continuous retardation or relaxation spectrum, the spectrum in turn being determined from the given compliance or relaxation function. The method of doing that within the context of solidification theory for creep with agin...

A new theory, inspired by analogy with turbulence, was recently proposed to model the apparent dynamic overstress due to the energy that is dissipated by material comminution during penetration of missiles into concrete walls. The high-rate interface fracture comminuting the material to small particles was considered to be driven by the release of kinetic energy of high-rate shear of the formin...

This paper proposes a framework for the constitutive model based on the semi-micromechanical aspects of plasticity, including damage progress for simulating behavior of concrete under multiaxial loading. This model is aimed to be used in plastic and fracture analysis of both regular and reinforced concrete structures, for the framework of sample plane crack approach. This model uses multilamina...

The establishment of a simple engineering rule for predicting the fatigue failure concrete has been pursued over past decades. An energetic approach to matter seems be an attractive option that many researchers have embraced. In present work, authors attempt contribute such rule. particular, energy dissipation confined subjected shear cyclic loading is studied and quantified. For this purpose, ...

The paper analyzes a proposed scheme of decontamination of radionuclides from concrete structures, in which rapid microwave heating is used to spall off a thin contaminated surface layer. The analysis is split in two parts: ~1! the hygrothermal part of the problem, which consists in calculating the evolution of the temperature and pore pressure fields, and ~2! the fracturing part, which consist...