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Fatigue capacity of plain concrete under fatigue loading with constant confined stress

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The fatigue tests of concrete have been conducted with constant confined stress, including compression, tension and alternate tension–compression fatigue loading. Based on the results of experiment, the equations of S–N curves under certain lateral stress were established and fatigue failure criterions for different loading cases were proposed. Thus according to the S–N curves, the fatigue reduction coefficients for different fatigue loading were obtained. At last, the necessity of the proposed fatigue failure criterion was shown by checking an existing concrete structure’s computation under fatigue loading. The investigation of this paper can provide some useful information for the design of concrete structures such as reinforced concrete bridge crane beams, offshore platforms, concrete sleepers, nuclear power plants and pressure vessels.

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Acknowledgement

This work was performed under grants from the National Science Foundation of China (grants No. 50908026) and from China Postdoctoral Foundation (grant No. 20080441117, 200902541).

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  1. Civil and Architectural Engineering College, Dalian University, Dalian, 116622, China

    H. L. Wang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning Province, 116024, China

    Y. P. Song

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Wang, H.L., Song, Y.P. Fatigue capacity of plain concrete under fatigue loading with constant confined stress. Mater Struct 44, 253–262 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-010-9624-6

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