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Mesoscale model for cracking of concrete cover induced by reinforcement corrosion

  • Chen, Junyu (Key Laboratory of Performance Evolution and Control for Engineering Structures, Ministry of Education, Tongji University) ;
  • Zhang, Weiping (Key Laboratory of Performance Evolution and Control for Engineering Structures, Ministry of Education, Tongji University) ;
  • Gu, Xianglin (Key Laboratory of Performance Evolution and Control for Engineering Structures, Ministry of Education, Tongji University)
  • Received : 2017.08.11
  • Accepted : 2018.04.19
  • Published : 2018.07.25
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Abstract

Cracking of concrete cover induced by reinforcement corrosion is a critical issue for life-cycle design and maintenance of reinforced concrete structures. However, the critical degree of corrosion, based on when the concrete surface cracks, is usually hard to predict accurately due to the heterogeneity inherent in concrete. To investigate the influence of concrete heterogeneity, a modified rigid-body-spring model, which could generate concrete sections with randomly distributed coarse aggregates, has been developed to study the corrosion-induced cracking process of the concrete cover and the corresponding critical degree of corrosion. In this model, concrete is assumed to be a three-phase composite composed of coarse aggregate, mortar and an interfacial transition zone (ITZ), and the uniform corrosion of a steel bar is simulated by applying uniform radial displacement. Once the relationship between radial displacement and degree of corrosion is derived, the critical degree of corrosion can be obtained. The mesoscale model demonstrated its validity as it predicted the critical degree of corrosion and cracking patterns in good agreement with analytical solutions and experimental results. The model demonstrates how the random distribution of coarse aggregate results in a variation of critical degrees of corrosion, which follows a normal distribution. A parametric study was conducted, which indicates that both the mean and variation of critical degree of corrosion increased with the increase of concrete cover thickness, coarse aggregates volume fraction and decrease of coarse aggregate size. In addition, as tensile strength of concrete increased, the average critical degree of corrosion increased while its variation almost remained unchanged.

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Supported by : National Natural Science Foundation of China

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