TY - CONF A1 - Unger, Jörg F. A1 - Kindrachuk, Vitaliy A1 - Hirthammer, Volker A1 - Titscher, Thomas A1 - Pohl, Christoph T1 - The importance of multiphysics and multiscale modelling of concrete to understand its complex macroscopic properties N2 - Concrete is a complex material. Its properties evolve over time, especially at early age, and are dependent on environmental conditions, i.e. temperature and moisture conditions, as well as the composition of the material. This leads to a variety of macroscopic phenomena such as hydration/solidification/hardening, creep and shrinkage, thermal strains, damage and inelastic deformations. Most of these phenomena are characterized by specific set of model assumptions and often an additive decomposition of strains into elastic, plastic, shrinkage and creep components is performed. Each of these phenomena are investigated separately and a number of respective independent models have been designed. The interactions are then accounted for by adding appropriate correction factors or additional models for the particular interaction. This paper discusses the importance of reconsider even in the experimental phase the model assumptions required to generalize the experimental data into models used in design codes. It is especially underlined that the complex macroscopic behaviour of concrete is strongly influenced by its multiscale and multiphyscis nature and two examples (shrinkage and fatigue) of interacting phenomena are discussed. T2 - International RILEM Conference on Materials, Systems and Structures in Civil Engineering CY - Lyngby, Denmark DA - 22.08.2016 KW - Concrete KW - Multiscale KW - Multiphysics PY - 2016 VL - 1 SP - 115 EP - 124 PB - International RILEM Conference on Materials, Systems and Structures in Civil Engineering, Conference segment on COST TU1404 AN - OPUS4-38651 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Titscher, Thomas A1 - van Dijk, T. A1 - Kadoke, Daniel A1 - Robens-Radermacher, Annika A1 - Herrmann, Ralf A1 - Unger, Jörg F. T1 - Bayesian model calibration and damage detection for a digital twin of a bridge demonstrator N2 - Using digital twins for decision making is a very promising concept which combines simulation models with corresponding experimental sensor data in order to support maintenance decisions or to investigate the reliability. The quality of the prognosis strongly depends on both the data quality and the quality of the digital twin. The latter comprises both the modeling assumptions as well as the correct parameters of these models. This article discusses the challenges when applying this concept to realmeasurement data for a demonstrator bridge in the lab, including the data management, the iterative development of the simulation model as well as the identification/updating procedure using Bayesian inference with a potentially large number of parameters. The investigated scenarios include both the iterative identification of the structural model parameters as well as scenarios related to a damage identification. In addition, the article aims at providing all models and data in a reproducibleway such that other researcher can use this setup to validate their methodologies. KW - Damage detection KW - Finite element analysis KW - Load identification KW - Model updating KW - Estimation KW - System identification KW - Variational Bayesian statistics PY - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-574496 SN - 2577-8196 SP - 1 EP - 27 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken, NJ AN - OPUS4-57449 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Titscher, Thomas A1 - Unger, Jörg F. A1 - Oliver, J. T1 - Implicit explicit integration of gradient enhanced damage models N2 - Quasi-brittle materials exhibit strain softening. Their modeling requires regularized constitutive formulations to avoid instabilities on the material level. A commonly used model is the implicit gradient-enhanced damage model. For complex geometries, it still Shows structural instabilities when integrated with classical backward Euler schemes. An alternative is the implicit–explicit (IMPL-EX) Integration scheme. It consists of the extrapolation of internal variables followed by an implicit calculation of the solution fields. The solution procedure for the nonlinear gradient-enhanced damage model is thus transformed into a sequence of problems that are algorithmically linear in every time step. Therefore, they require one single Newton–Raphson iteration per time step to converge. This provides both additional robustness and computational acceleration. The introduced extrapolation error is controlled by adaptive time-stepping schemes. This paper introduced and assessed two novel classes of error control schemes that provide further Performance improvements. In a three-dimensional compression test for a mesoscale model of concrete, the presented scheme was about 40 times faster than an adaptive backward Euler time integration. KW - Implicit explicit schemes KW - Gradient-enhanced damage model KW - Adaptive time stepping KW - Continuum damage KW - Robustness PY - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0001608 SN - 0733-9399 SN - 1943-7889 VL - 145 IS - 7 SP - 04019040-1 EP - 04019040-13 PB - ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers AN - OPUS4-48361 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Titscher, Thomas A1 - Unger, Jörg F. A1 - Oliver, J. ED - von Scheven, M. ED - Keip, M.-A. ED - Karajan, N. T1 - Cycle-by-cycle fatigue damage model for concrete N2 - Damage caused by stress concentrations in the complex mesoscopic geometry of concrete leads to continuous stress redistribution over the material’s life time. The presented fatigue damage model captures this by resolving each load cycle in a cycle-by-cycle time integration. The model extends a static damage model to failure caused by the (time dependent) strain amplitudes and, thus, allows calibrating the majority of the material’s parameters in static experiments. T2 - 7th GACM Colloquium on Computational Mechanics for Young Scientists from Academia and Industry CY - Stuttgart, Germany DA - 11.10.2017 KW - Cycle-by-cycle KW - Fatigue damage KW - Mesoscopic PY - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-436681 VL - 7 SP - MS13, 440 EP - 443 PB - Institute for Structural Mechanics, University of Stuttgart CY - Stuttgart AN - OPUS4-43668 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Titscher, Thomas A1 - Unger, Jörg F. T1 - Application of molecular dynamics simulations for the generation of dense concrete mesoscale geometries N2 - The problem of polydisperse sphere packings is applied to concrete mesoscale geometries in finite sized specimens. Realistic sphere diameter distributions are derived from concrete grading curves. An event-driven molecular dynamics simulation using growing particles is introduced. Compared to the widely used random sequential addition algorithm, it reaches denser aggregate packings and saves computation time at high volume fractions. A minimal distance between particles strongly influences the maximum aggregate content. It is essential to obtain undistorted elements when meshing the geometry for finite element simulations. The algorithm maximizes this value and produces meshable concrete mesostructures with more than 70% aggregate content. KW - Polydisperse sphere packing KW - Mesoscale geometry KW - Concrete mesostructure KW - Molecular dynamics PY - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2015.06.008 SN - 0045-7949 SN - 0366-7138 VL - 158 SP - 274 EP - 284 PB - Pergamon Press CY - Oxford AN - OPUS4-34190 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Titscher, Thomas A1 - Unger, Jörg F. T1 - Efficient higher-order cycle jump integration of a continuum fatigue damage model N2 - Simulating high-cycle fatigue with continuum models offers the possibility to model stress-redistributions, consider 3Dstress states and simplifies extensions to multi-physics problems. The computational cost of conventional cycle-by-cycle time integrations is reduced by reformulating the fatigue problem as an ordinary differential equation for the material state and solving it with high-order adaptive time integration schemes. The computational cost of calculating the Change of the material state in one cycle is further reduced by a high-order fatigue-specific time integration. The approach is exemplarily demonstrated for a fatigue extension of the implicit gradient-enhanced damage model in 3D and compared to experimental Wöhler lines. KW - Cycle jump KW - Temporal multiscale KW - Fatigue modeling KW - Continuum damage mechanics KW - Regularized damage models PY - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2020.105863 VL - 141 SP - 105863 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-51101 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Titscher, Thomas A1 - Robens-Radermacher, Annika A1 - Unger, Jörg F. T1 - Model calibration and damage detection for a digital twin N2 - Numerical models are an essential tool in predicting and monitoring the behavior of civil structures. Inferring the model parameters is a challenging tasks as they are often measured indirectly and are affected by uncertainties. Digital twins couple those models with real-world data and can introduce additional, systematic sensor uncertainties related to the sensor calibration, i.e. uncertain offsets and calibration factors. In this work, the challenges of data processing, parameter identification, model selection and damage detection are explored using a lab-scale cable stayed bridge demonstrator. By combining force measurements in the cables with displacement measurements from both laser and stereo-photogrammetry systems, the elastic parameters of a three-dimensional finite element beam model are inferred. Depending on the number of sensors and the number of datasets used, parametrizing the sensor offsets and factors, leads to model with over 100 parameters. With a real-time solution of the problem in mind, a highly efficient analytical variational Bayesian approach is used to solve it within seconds. An analysis of the required assumptions and limitations of the approach, especially w.r.t. to the computed evidence, is provided by a comparison with dynamic nested sampling in a simplified problem. Finally, by inferring the value of additional damage parameters along the bridge, the method is successfully used to detect the location of an artificially introduced weak spot in the demonstrator bridge. T2 - ECCOMAS 2022 CY - Oslo, Norway DA - 05.06.2022 KW - Bayesian identification KW - Digital twin KW - Variational Bayesian KW - Damage detection PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-55083 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Titscher, Thomas A1 - Unger, Jörg F. T1 - Concrete mesostructure geometry modelling with growing and colliding hard spheres T2 - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI); 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V); 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) CY - Barcelona, Spanien DA - 2014-07-20 PY - 2014 AN - OPUS4-32897 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Titscher, Thomas A1 - Unger, Jörg F. A1 - Oliver, J. T1 - Implicit/explicit (IMPL-EX) integration of the gradient enhanced damage model N2 - Isotropic damage models are widely used for the finite element simulation of softening materials, e.g. in mesoscale simulations of concrete. Regularization techniques must be employed to obtain a physically meaningful fracture energy upon mesh refinement. In regularized local damage models the strains localize in single elements allowing them to represent weak or strong discontinuities. In implicit integration schemes, these models can exhibit convergence Problems caused by an ill-conditioned tangent stiffness. This corresponds to the loss of ellipticity of the local rate equilibrium equations. Oliver et al. developed the implicit/explicit (IMPL-EX) integration scheme which overcomes These problems in local damage models. The internal damage driving variable is extrapolated based on previous implicitly determined values. This provides two main benefits: First, it always results in a symmetric positive semi-definite algorithmic stiffness matrix which precludes ill-posedness. Second, the system becomes incrementally linear and converges in one Newton-Raphson iteration. Even though the IMPL-EX algorithm, like explicit algorithms in general, requires smaller time steps than implicit schemes to obtain the same accuracy, it leads to a computational speedup. The gradient enhanced damage model by Peerlings is a nonlocal damage model that provides the regularization by limiting the curvature of the damage-driving strains. These models do not lose their ellipticity. However, structural instabilities often require tiny time steps and many iterations to obtain convergence. Here, the second aspect of the IMPL-EX scheme reduces the computational costs. This is shown in simulations of the complex geometry of concrete mesostructures, where only the gradient enhanced matrix material and linear elastic aggregates are considered. With regard to future mesoscale simulations, the remaining component of the mesoscopic structure, the interfacial transition zone and its degradation, has to be included. This adds a local damage model to the nonlocal problem. Thus, an IMPL-EX implementation has to be provided for both models to benefit from the increase of robustness and performance. T2 - ECCOMAS Congress 2016 CY - Crete, Greece DA - 05.06.2016 KW - Concrete KW - Mesoscale KW - IMPL-EX PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38671 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - THES A1 - Titscher, Thomas T1 - Efficient computational mesoscale modeling of concrete under cyclic loading N2 - Concrete is a complex material and can be modeled on various spatial and temporal scales. While simulations on coarse scales are practical for engineering applications, a deeper understanding of the material is gained on finer scales. This is at the cost of an increased numerical effort that can be reduced by the three methods developed and used in this work, each corresponding to one publication. The coarse spatial scale is related to fully homogenized models. The material is described in a phenomenological approach and the numerous parameters sometimes lack a physical meaning. Resolving the three-phase mesoscopic structure consisting of aggregates, the mortar matrix and the interfaces between them allow to describe similar effects with simpler models. KW - Concrete KW - Fatigue failure KW - Damage KW - Mesoscale PY - 2019 VL - 9 SP - 1 EP - 52 PB - UPC - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Barcelona CY - Barcelona AN - OPUS4-50362 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -