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Biaxial flexural fatigue behavior of strain-hardening UHPFRC thin slab elements

Shen, Xiujiang  
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Brühwiler, Eugen  
2020
International Journal of Fatigue

The biaxial flexural fatigue behavior of thin slab elements made of strain-hardening Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composite (UHPFRC) is investigated experimentally by means of the ring-on-ring test method. Fourteen flexural fatigue tests under constant amplitude fatigue cycles up to the Very High Cycle Fatigue domain (20 million cycles) are conducted with varying maximum fatigue stress level S ranging from 0.50 to 0.68. Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technology is applied to capture the 3D full-field strain contours on the tensile surface through the entire fatigue test. Test results presented in the S-N diagram reveal a fatigue endurance limit under biaxial flexural fatigue at S = 0.54. Fatigue tests exhibiting failure show four distinct phases of damage evolution, while only the first two phases are observed in the case of run-out tests. DIC analysis reveal formation and propagation of multiple fine fictitious cracks that dominate the stable fatigue propagation phase with slow rate, representing the longest part of fatigue life of the UHPFRC specimen. Finally, the secant modulus of deflection and fictitious crack opening with respect to fatigue cycles is found to characterize quantitatively fatigue damage evolution.

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DOI
10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2020.105727
Author(s)
Shen, Xiujiang  
Brühwiler, Eugen  
Date Issued

2020

Published in
International Journal of Fatigue
Volume

138

Article Number

105727

Subjects

Biaxial flexural fatigue behavior

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Strain-hardening UHPFRC

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Thin slab element

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Ring-on-ring test

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Digital Image Correlation (DIC)

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Fictitious cracks

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Very High Cycle Fatigue

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February 10, 2021
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