Computational Modelling of Braided Fibre for Concrete Reinforcement

Cortis, M.; Kaczmarczyk, L.; Pearce, C.; Javadi, Akbar; Hussain, Mohammed S.

Computational Modelling of Braided Fibre for Concrete Reinforcement

Cortis, M.; Kaczmarczyk, L.; Pearce, C.; Javadi, Akbar; Hussain, Mohammed S.

Authors

M. Cortis

L. Kaczmarczyk

C. Pearce

Akbar Javadi

Mohammed S. Hussain

Abstract

This paper presents numerical modelling of braided fibre, to be used as concrete reinforcement. Ultimately, a corrosive and fire resistant concrete will be produced. A Cubit script (geometry and mesh software) was created to mesh braided yarns under dierent geometric parameters. Fibres were represented using elastic transversely isotropic materials, for which the fibre directions for every yarn were precisely determined from the gradients of the resultant stream functions of potential flow problems. Applying an elastic interfaces between yarns to preventing penetration and having free sliding, convergence studies were conducted on a coarse and fine mesh, using hierarchical higher order approximation [1] for uniform p- and hp-refinement.

Citation

Cortis, M., Kaczmarczyk, L., Pearce, C., Javadi, A., & Hussain, M. S. (2014). Computational Modelling of Braided Fibre for Concrete Reinforcement. In Proceedings of the 22nd UK National Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering, 2nd - 4th April 2014, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, UK (189-192)

Conference Name	22nd ACME Conference on Computational Mechanics.
Conference Location	Exeter, United Kingdom
Start Date	Apr 2, 2014
End Date	Apr 4, 2014
Publication Date	Apr 4, 2014
Deposit Date	May 25, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Mar 3, 2016
Pages	189-192
Book Title	Proceedings of the 22nd UK National Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering, 2nd - 4th April 2014, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, UK.
Publisher URL	http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/engineering/research/acme/programmeproceedings/
Additional Information	Conference dates: 2-4 April 2014