Journal of Materials and Engineering Structures (Dec 2022)

Refinement of an inverse analysis procedure for estimating tensile constitutive law of UHPC

  • Long Ngoc NGUYEN,
  • Tung Thanh BUI,
  • Tung Xuan NGUYEN,
  • Minh Van NGO

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 4
pp. 579 – 587

Abstract

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As regard to cementitious composite materials added a certain dosage of fiber, estimation of tensile constitutive law through inverse analysis methods is no longer extraordinary. However, development or improvement to achieve an effective method for estimating such a tensile behavior of fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) or Ultra high-performance concrete (UHPC) is still an interesting topic to researchers. In this respect, the paper presents a development of inverse analysis method developed by Lopez to obtain the stress-strain behavior of UHPC from the four-point bending test. By applying optimization algorithm into the iterative procedure of method, an improvement could be obtained for the inverse analysis with a high degree of automation in calculation. A post-process treatment for inverse analysis results is also proposed to bring a finer agreement between the tensile behavior curve obtained by the inverse analysis and result curve of uniaxial tensile test (UTT). The effectivity of process is shown through a comparison between the result obtained by the proposed method and the result in Lopez’s public paper.

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