XCT Image-based homogenisation of the elastic properties of ultra high performance fibre reinforced concrete

Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering, ACME-UK

Rajneesh Sharma, Z.J. Yang, L. Margetts , S. McDonald , & A. Qsymah

2015-04-08

Micro-scale X-ray computed tomography images of UHPFRC are used to construct finite element models for prediction of elastic properties using a two-step homogenization approach. In the first step, the mortar matrix with a large number of small voids is homogenized, and in the second the fewer large voids and steel fibres are modelled with the homogenised matrix. This leads to significant reduction in computational costs over one-step approaches. The results are compared favourably with experimental data. The effects of RVE size are also studied.