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| author | Mishra, Akanksha Carrara, Pietro Griffa, Michele De Lorenzis, Laura |
| author_facet | Mishra, Akanksha Carrara, Pietro Griffa, Michele De Lorenzis, Laura |
| contents | We test and simulate the mesoscopic cracking behavior of specimens made of a standard concrete mixture. To this end, we combine stable wedge-splitting fracture experiments performed during X-ray tomography, their analysis with digital volume correlation providing the full three-dimensional displacement field, and phase-field cohesive fracture modeling. In our computations, we apply the measured boundary conditions and model the actual heterogeneous material structure at the mesoscopic scale. Within the phase-field model, we explicitly distinguish among (thus individually represent) the mesostructural features of distinct material phases with size above a threshold of 1 mm, while we homogenize pores and finer aggregates below this threshold within the cementitious mortar matrix, with material parameters characterized accordingly. We compare experimental and numerical results in terms of both local and global quantities. |
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| spellingShingle | Fracture in concrete: X-ray tomography with in-situ testing, digital volume correlation and phase-field modeling Mishra, Akanksha Carrara, Pietro Griffa, Michele De Lorenzis, Laura Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science We test and simulate the mesoscopic cracking behavior of specimens made of a standard concrete mixture. To this end, we combine stable wedge-splitting fracture experiments performed during X-ray tomography, their analysis with digital volume correlation providing the full three-dimensional displacement field, and phase-field cohesive fracture modeling. In our computations, we apply the measured boundary conditions and model the actual heterogeneous material structure at the mesoscopic scale. Within the phase-field model, we explicitly distinguish among (thus individually represent) the mesostructural features of distinct material phases with size above a threshold of 1 mm, while we homogenize pores and finer aggregates below this threshold within the cementitious mortar matrix, with material parameters characterized accordingly. We compare experimental and numerical results in terms of both local and global quantities. |
| title | Fracture in concrete: X-ray tomography with in-situ testing, digital volume correlation and phase-field modeling |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01487 |