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Calibration of a concrete damage plasticity model used to simulate the material components of unreinforced masonry reinforced concrete infill frames

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This paper discusses the identification and characterization of material parameters of a concrete damage plasticity constitutive model that is used to describe the mechanical responses of mortar, bricks, and concrete, defined here as the three material components of an unreinforced masonry infill wall system. Each of these material components exhibits a nonlinear and inelastic response, which it is hypothesized can be fully described by the use of a single concrete damage plasticity material model. A comprehensive investigation of experimental tests on these materials found in the literature showed large variations in their stress–strain mechanical responses when subjected to uniaxial compression loading. This may be attributed to different factors, including material properties, manufacturing, and geometry of the testing specimens. This work focuses on the study of material properties of mortar, bricks, and concrete, with the objective of retrieving optimal model parameters using a quasi-brittle constitutive model. For this purpose, a set of numerical experiments are designed and implemented reproducing standard uniaxial compression tests on each material. The methodology to explore the use of the proposed constitutive model includes a parametric analysis, followed by the deterministic calibration of the model parameters based on a standard optimization approach.

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Albu-Jasim, Q., Medina-Cetina, Z. & Muliana, A. Calibration of a concrete damage plasticity model used to simulate the material components of unreinforced masonry reinforced concrete infill frames. Mater Struct 55, 36 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-021-01845-0

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