TY - JOUR A1 - Przondziono, R. A1 - Timothy, J. J. A1 - Weise, Frank A1 - Krütt, Enno A1 - Breitenbücher, R. A1 - Meschke, G. A1 - Hofmann, M. T1 - Degradation in concrete structures due to cyclic loading and its effect on transport processes - Experiments and modeling JF - Structural Concrete N2 - According to the objectives of the research group 1498, this paper deals with degradation effects in concrete structures that are caused by cyclic flexural loading. The goal is to determine their influence on the fluid transport processes within the material on the basis of experimental results and numerical simulations. The overall question was, to which extent the ingress of externally supplied alkalis and subsequently an alkali-silica reaction are affected by such modifications in the microstructure. Degradation in the concrete microstructure is characterized by ultrasonic wave measurements as well as by microscopic crack analysis. Furthermore, experiments on the penetration behavior of water into the investigated materials were performed. The penetration behavior into predamaged concrete microstructures was examined by the classical Karsten tube experiment, nuclear magnetic resonance method, and time domain reflectometry techniques. In order to create an appropriate model of the material's degradation on the water transport, the Darcy law was applied to describe the flow in partially saturated concrete. Material degradation is taken into account by an effective permeability that is dependent on the state of degradation. This effective permeability is obtained by the micromechanical homogenisation of the flow in an Representative Elementary Volume (REV) with distributed ellipsoidal microcracks embedded in a porous medium. The data gained in the microscopic crack analysis is used as input for the micromechanical model. Finite element simulations for unsaturated flow using the micromechanical model were compared with the experimental results showing good qualitative and quantitative agreement. KW - Alkali ingress KW - Alkali-silica reaction KW - Computational model for unsaturated flow KW - Cyclic loading KW - Degradation KW - Micromechanics model KW - Transport processes PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/suco.201600180 SN - 1751-7648 SN - 1464-4177 VL - 18 IS - 4 SP - 519 EP - 527 PB - Ernst & Sohn AN - OPUS4-41008 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -