State of the art on structural reinforced concrete design guidelines with non-linear analyses

MRT Arruda, M Deividas, K Vadimas - Mechanics of Advanced …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Structural design rules of reinforced concrete structures for using non-linear analysis with
MC2010 are presented in this article. The authors propose guidelines and good practice for …

A regularized higher-order beam elements for damage analysis of reinforced concrete beams

J Shen, MRT Arruda, A Pagani… - Mechanics of Advanced …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This work presents a numerical method for damage analysis of reinforced concrete beams
using the higher-order beam theory based on Carrera unified formulation. The component …

Hygro-thermal–mechanical coupling analysis for early shrinkage of cast in situ concrete slabs of composite beams: Theory and experiment

J Zhu, C Wang, Y Yang, Y Wang - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
The steel girder of the steel–concrete composite bridge restricts the deformation induced by
variations in the temperature and relative humidity of the concrete. Thus, concrete …

Damage evolution and strength prediction model of soda residue modified cemented tailings backfill under uniaxial compression

D Gan, H Sun, Z Xue, Z Liu, X Yang - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Recycling of solid waste materials reduces filling costs and reduces environmental pollution.
This paper analyzed the availability of soda residue modified cemented tailings backfill …

Concrete damage analysis based on higher-order beam theories using fracture energy regularization

J Shen, MRT Arruda, A Pagani - Mechanics of Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents the numerical damage analysis of concrete structures using higher-
order beam theories based on Carrera Unified Formulation (CUF). The concrete constitutive …

Meso-scale modeling of the compressive mechanical behavior of concrete by a RVE-based BEM formulation

MJM Silva, CG Pitaluga, GR Fernnades… - … of Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract A 2 D Boundary Element Method (BEM) formulation, based on the representative
volume element (RVE) concept, simulates the mechanical behavior of experimentally tested …

Formulation optimization of oil shale semi-coke/lime/cement solidified loess based on ternary nephogram and establishment of elastic-plastic damage model

Y Wei, K Song, Q Zhang, H Dou, H Xu - Construction and Building Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Oil shale semi-coke (OSS) is a industrial solid waste produced after the dry distillation
refining of oil shale. Due to its internal enrichment of activity silico-aluminate minerals, it can …

A consistent crack bandwidth for higher-order beam theories: Application to concrete

J Shen, MR Tiago Arruda… - International Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Higher-order theories have a broad range of successful applications but also suffer from
localization instability and mesh-size dependency when modeling quasi-brittle materials …

Modified Damage Model of Aeolian Sand Self-Compacting Concrete

J Zhu, Q Liu, F Han, S Zheng, Y He - Journal of Engineering …, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Modeling of concrete damage is an important branch of concrete structural analysis;
however, the damage behavior of different types of concrete varies. In this study, mechanical …

An enhanced local damage model for 2D and 3D quasi-brittle fracture: ABAQUS-FEM implementation and comparative study on the effect of equivalent strains

QN Tran, MN Nguyen, CD Vuong, N Nguyen… - Advances in Engineering …, 2025 - Elsevier
In this paper, the initiation and propagation of cracks in quasi-brittle materials are
characterized by an enhanced local damage model. The model is implemented using …