A Non-local elasto-plastic model to describe localisations of deformation in concrete

Abstract

The paper presents numerical simulations of behaviour of concrete elements subjected to uniaxial compression for plane strain. FE-calculations are performed with two different elasto-plastic constitutive laws for concrete. Numerical results obtained suffer from mesh sensivity due to the presence of material softening. To obtain a well-posed boundary problem and a mesh independent solution, conventional constitutive laws with softening require an extension (called regularisation) to describe properly the localisations of deformations. In this paper elasto-plastic constitutive laws are extended by non-local strain terms. Owing to them, localisations of deformations are realistically captured