TY - GEN A1 - Thiele, Marc T1 - Experimental investigation of fatigue process in concrete under high-cycle loading N2 - Fatigue is of relevance not only for metals but also for concrete. The current knowledge about fatigue behaviour of concrete is, however, incomplete. This concerns especially the progress of fatigue which precedes the fatigue failure. Some macroscopic effects of this process are well known but the governing material changes behind them are still less studied. The focus of the present contribution lay on a systematic and comprehensive investigation of the fatigue process under cyclic compressive loading. The aim was to obtain a deeper insight and to provide a better understanding of the damage process in the material. Cylindrical specimens were tested with a number of cycles to failure between 106 and 107. Various methods of non-destructive and destructive testing were used to investigate macroscopic and microscopic changes in the material. One main result was that the changes in the macroscopic material behaviour could not be explained only by the development of micro cracks. The results indicated that the related changes in the fatigue behaviour originate rather from viscous processes in the cement stone, similar to the process of creep. A sound description of the possible processes was derived from the obtained experimental results which concerns material structure during fatigue loading. It has been shown that in case of isotropic material behaviour a stiffness reduction related to a scalar value could not capture the damage effect on the stress-strain relationship caused by fatigue. T2 - fib symposium 2016 CY - Cape Town, South Africa DA - 21.11.2016 KW - High-cycle KW - Fatigue KW - Concrete KW - Damage evolution PY - 2016 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38721 AN - OPUS4-38721 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany