FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ON STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR OF GEOpOLYMER REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM USING JOHNSON-COOK DAMAGE IN ABAQUS

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Abstract

This paper details a finite element analysis of the behaviour of Si-Al geopolymer concrete beam reinforced steel bar under an impulsive load and hyper velocity speed up to 1 km/s created by an air blast explosion. The initial torsion stiffness and ultimate torsion strength of the beam increased with increasing compressive strength and decreasing stirrup ratio. The study involves building a finite element model to detail the stress distribution and compute the level of damage, displacement, and cracks development on the geopolymer concrete reinforcement beam. This was done in ABAQUS, where a computational model of the finite element was used to determine the elasticity, plasticity, concrete tension damages, concrete damage plasticity, and the viability of the Johnson-Cook Damage method on the Si-Al geopolymer concrete. The results from the numerical simulation show that an increase in the load magnitude at the midspan of the beam leads to a percentage increase in the ultimate damage of the reinforced geopolymer beams failing in shear plastic deformation. The correlation between the numerical and experimental blasting results confirmed that the damage pattern accurately predicts the response of the steel reinforcement Si-Al geopolymer concrete beams, concluded that decreasing the scaled distance from 0.298 kg/m3 to 0.149 kg/m3 increased the deformation percentage.

Publication Date

2022-11-23

Publication Title

Archives of Metallurgy and Materials

Volume

67

Issue

4

ISSN

1733-3490

Embargo Period

2023-04-25

Keywords

ABAQUS software, finite element analysis, Fly ash geopolymer, geopolymer concrete, Johnson cook damage

First Page

1349

Last Page

1354

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