Failure Analysis of High Performance Concrete - A Mesomechanic Approach

Abstract

The use of high performance concrete significantly increased in last years because the increasing needs of more strength, slenderness and economy of the different structural elements. The structural response of this kind of concrete is strongly related to the internal composition of its mesostructure and the strength ratio between the different phases that composes the mesostructure. In this work we present in advance some new numerical results obtained by using a mesomechanical approach to numerically represent the failure process of the material under compressive loads.