Mechanical behavior of strain-hardening cement-based composites (SHCC) subjected to torsional loading and to combined torsional and axial loading

Autor: Tathiana Caram S.P. Figueiredo, Iurie Curosu, Giancarlo L.G. Gonzáles, Marcus Hering, Flávio de Andrade Silva, Manfred Curbach, Viktor Mechtcherine
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Zdroj: Materials & Design, Vol 198, Iss , Pp 109371- (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0264-1275
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2020.109371
Popis: Strain-hardening cement-based composites (SHCC) are a novel class of fiber-reinforced concretes which exhibit high tensile strain capacity prior to failure localization. Although the tensile behavior of SHCC has been a matter of study in numerous research works, the behavior of these composites under other loading modes has scarcely been investigated. The article at hand addresses the mechanical behavior of two types of normal-strength SHCC subject to uniaxial tension, torsion, and combinations of torsional and axial loading. The SHCC under investigation were made with polyvinyl-alcohol (PVA) and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibers, respectively. Digital Image Correlation (DIC) was applied to evaluate the multiple cracking process and crack opening modes in conjunction with the axial and torsional loading histories. The study demonstrates the suitability of torsion experiments to assess the multi-axial and shear performance of SHCC, highlights the relation between multiple cracking and transfer capacity for shear forces, and emphasizes the importance of the type of reinforcing fibers on the shear strength and ductility of such composites.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals