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XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Warsaw, Poland, August 15-21, 2004
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Long - Term Stress - Strain Relations of the Cement - Matrix Composite
| Huang - Hsing Pan | | Department of Civil Engineering, Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
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A micromechanics-based model is proposed to determine the nonlinear stress- strain relations of the cement-matrix composites due to the effects of the volume concentrations and the material ages. When the nonlinear stress-strain curve of the binders is determined by means of the four-parameter Burgers model at different material ages, the secant moduli of the nonlinear binders are then used in a two-phase composite model to find the overall secant moduli of the composite as a function of the volume concentration and the shape of the aggregates. The results show that the predicted stress-strain relations of the mortar depending on the material ages are suitable for the volume concentration up to 70% of the aggregates and the range lower than 80% the peak strength of the composite.
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