Jw. Ju et Y. Zhang, AXISYMMETRICAL THERMOMECHANICAL CONSTITUTIVE AND DAMAGE MODELING FOR AIRFIELD CONCRETE PAVEMENT UNDER TRANSIENT HIGH-TEMPERATURE, Mechanics of materials, 29(3-4), 1998, pp. 307-323
An axisymmetric thermomechanical damage model is proposed for airfield
concrete pavement under very rapid heating and cooling processes due
to high-temperature exhaust gas from vectored thrust engines. This is
typical of advanced aircraft during their short vertical take-off and
landing routines. The temperature and pore pressure distributions are
investigated inside the airfield concrete pavement along the radial an
d vertical directions. In addition, we derive the three-dimensional th
ermoelastic stress-strain laws accounting for spherical void effects.
Since the temperature range in this study is very large, thermal prope
rties of concrete pavement are treated as functions of temperature. Th
e spatial-temporal temperature field of the airfield concrete pavement
is calculated numerically by the explicit finite difference method. S
ubsequently, the pore pressure distribution is predicted based on the
ASME Steam Tables and the foregoing temperature distribution. Within t
he framework of linear thermoelasticity, the stress distributions are
computed as functions of locations and time by the finite element meth
od. Further, Newman's crack growth model is applied to estimate the de
lamination (thermal spalling) time of the airfield concrete pavement a
t various locations due to the internal pore pressure. (C) 1998 Elsevi
er Science Ltd. All rights reserved.