Course: Modeling of Concrete Structures

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Course title Modeling of Concrete Structures
Course code KDS/VMBK1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 0
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Řoutil Ladislav, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Fracture Mechanics of quasi-brittle composites: basic nature of brittle, quasi-brittle and ductile materials linear elastic fracture mechanics and the possibility / limit its application in modeling the response and damage of concrete structures fracture process zone fracture energy size effect on the bearing capacity of concrete structures nonlinear fracture mechanics - fictitious crack model, crack bend model, approximate nonlinear fracture models concrete in tension and compression strain localization spurious dependence of numerical results on the size of the finite element mesh and localization limiters Probabilistic analysis and reliability of concrete structures: The reliability condition, reserve of reliability limit state and nature of the design according to standards, incl. their historical development reliability index FORM and SORM approximation methods Monte Carlo simulation method, Latin Hypercube Sampling, importing Sampling introduction of statistical dependence sensitivity analysis system reliability Weibull theory random fields - stochastic finite element method

Learning activities and teaching methods
Work-related activities
Learning outcomes
Basic principles of linear and nonlinear fracture mechanics and their application in modeling the mechanical response and damage of concrete structures. The size effect on the bearing capacity of concrete structures. Probabilistic analysis and reliability of concrete structures.
Basic principles of linear and nonlinear fracture mechanics and their application in modeling the mechanical response of concrete structures. Probabilistic analysis and reliability of concrete structures.
Prerequisites
Structural Mechanics, Statics of Building Structures, Elasticity and Plasticity, Probability and Statistics.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination

Recommended literature
  • Ang, A. H.-S., Tang, W. H. Probability Concepts in Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.
  • BAŽANT, Z.P., PLANAS, J. Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and other Quasibrittle Materials. CRC Press, Boca Raton,Florida, 1998.
  • ČERVENKA V. et al. ATENA Program Documentation, Part 1 - Theory. Červenka Consulting s. r. o., Praha, 2014.
  • Ernst&Sohn. fib Model Code for Concrete Structures.
  • fib. International Federation for Structural Concrete.
  • IA-FraMCoS. International Association of Fracture Mechanics for Concrete and Concrete Structures.
  • IALCCE. International Association for Life - Cycle Civil Engineering.
  • JCSS. Probalistic model code.
  • KARIHALOO, B. L. Fracture mechanics of concrete. Longman Scientific & Technical, New York, 1995.
  • NOVÁK, D., VOŘECHOVSKÝ, M., TEPLÝ, B. FReET. Software for the statistical and reliability analysis of engineering problems and FReET-D: Degradation module. Advances in Engineering Software. Elsevier, 72, 179-192.
  • RILEM. International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures.
  • SHAH, S. P., SWARTZ, S. E., OUYANG, CH. Fracture mechanics of structural concrete: applications of fracture mechanics to concrete, rock, and other quasi-brittle materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1995.


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