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Assessment of fatigue resistance of concrete: S-N curves to the Paris’ law curves

MIARKA, P. SEITL, S. BÍLEK, V. CIFUENTES, H.

Original Title

Assessment of fatigue resistance of concrete: S-N curves to the Paris’ law curves

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Fatigue behaviour of concrete materials is often investigated on un-notched specimens under the compressive or bending loads. In this experimental study, a notched three-point bending (TPB) specimen is used in high-cycle fatigue experiments to obtain the Wohler’s curve. Based on this approach, a novel, yet relatively simple transition from the traditional Wohler’s curve to the Paris’ law curve is proposed. Such a methodology allows one to obtain the Paris’ law material constants, which are used to determine the fatigue failure of the structure or a component. The constants of the experimentally determined material, measured in four different concrete mixtures, have been verified by recalculating the number of cycles until the fatigue failure Nf by the integration of the Paris’ law equation. The back-calculated number of cycles and the approximation of the S-N curve allowed for a comparison with the experimental data. Furthermore, the initial notch tip was extended in this approximation by the value of the critical distance. Such an extension allowed us to cover a wide range of the experimental data and provided a better prediction of fatigue life. The proposed method was verified on all four studied materials and showed satisfactory results.

Keywords

Fatigue; Concrete; Wohler curve; Paris’ law; HPC; HSC; AAC

Authors

MIARKA, P.; SEITL, S.; BÍLEK, V.; CIFUENTES, H.

Released

18. 5. 2022

Publisher

Elsevier

Location

online

ISBN

0950-0618

Periodical

Construction and building materials

Year of study

341

Number

2

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

1

Pages to

18

Pages count

18

URL

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950061822014842

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/204313

BibTex

@article{BUT177948,
  author="Petr {Miarka} and Stanislav {Seitl} and Vlastimil {Bílek} and Héctor {Cifuentes}",
  title="Assessment of fatigue resistance of concrete: S-N curves to the Paris’ law curves",
  journal="Construction and building materials",
  year="2022",
  volume="341",
  number="2",
  pages="1--18",
  doi="10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2022.127811",
  issn="0950-0618",
  url="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950061822014842"
}