Experimentally informed fracture modelling of interfacial transition zone at micro-scale

Journal article (2019)

Authors

H. Zhang Materials and Environment - CEG
Y. Gan Materials and Environment - CEG
Y. Xu Materials and Environment - CEG
Shizhe Zhang Materials and Environment - CEG
E. Schlangen Materials and Environment - CEG
B. Šavija Materials and Environment - CEG
Research Group
Materials and Environment (CEG) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2019 H. Zhang, Y. Gan, Y. Xu, Shizhe Zhang, E. Schlangen, B. Šavija
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2019.103383
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2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Civil Engineering & Geosciences

Department

Materials- Mechanics- Management & Design

Research Group

Materials and Environment

Abstract

The aim of this work is to predict the micromechanical properties of interfacial transition zone (ITZ) by combining experimental and numerical approaches. In the experimental part, hardened cement paste (HCP) cantilevers (200 μm × 100 μm × 100 μm) attached to a quartzite aggregate were fabricated and tested using micro-dicing saw and nanoindenter, respectively. In the modelling, comparable digital specimens were produced by the X-ray computed tomography (XCT) and tested by a discrete lattice model. The fracture model was calibrated by the experimental load-displacement curves and can reproduce the experimental observations well. In the end, the calibrated model was used to predict the mechanical behaviour of ITZ under uniaxial tension, which can be further used as input for the multi-scale analysis of concrete.

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