Print Email Facebook Twitter Mesoscopic modeling of the impact behavior and fragmentation of porous concrete Title Mesoscopic modeling of the impact behavior and fragmentation of porous concrete Author Agar Ozbek, Ayda Safak (Istanbul Technical University) Pedersen, Ronnie Refstrup (Aalborg University; Ramboll) Weerheijm, J. (TU Delft Applied Mechanics; TNO) van Breugel, K. (TU Delft Materials and Environment) Date 2019 Abstract This study presents the numerical analyses conducted to investigate the impact behavior of different porous concretes, which have also been cast and tested experimentally. For a realistic representation of the real porous concretes containing arbitrary shaped air pores, a mesh generation code was developed in which the aggregates in the mixtures were directly extracted through computed tomography. In the code, mineralogically different aggregates in porous concretes with gravel could also be individually defined. In the explicit finite element analyses conducted, porous concrete was considered as a four-phase material, consisting of aggregates, interfacial transition zones (ITZ), bulk cement paste and air. The pore size distribution and the fragmentation behavior of the concretes were also numerically analyzed. Among the parameters that have been investigated both numerically and experimentally, aggregate grading, which determines the porosity and pore size distribution of the material, was found to have a dominant effect on the strength as well as the fragmentation properties of porous concretes. Although the amount of ITZ is higher in mixtures containing finer aggregates, those mixtures had higher impact strengths compared to coarser aggregate ones again owing to their much finer pore structures. Subject Explicit finite elementsFragmentImpact strengthPore size distributionPorous concrete To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dbf5d931-3c21-4b36-a10c-8729c3ff22da DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2019.04.020 Embargo date 2021-04-25 ISSN 0958-9465 Source Cement and Concrete Composites, 102, 116-133 Bibliographical note Accepted Author Manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 Ayda Safak Agar Ozbek, Ronnie Refstrup Pedersen, J. Weerheijm, K. van Breugel Files PDF Revised_CCC_2017_943_Version_3.pdf 6.25 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:dbf5d931-3c21-4b36-a10c-8729c3ff22da/datastream/OBJ/view