Finite element analysis of glass fibre

reinforced concrete slab under fatique

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Study Orientated Project Review -1 ( /02/24)

S.Dhaarinisri-23MST1017

Dr. Vasugi. K
Associate Professor
School of Civil Engineering
Contents
• Introduction
• Literature survey
• Summary of the Literature review
• Objectives
• Methodology
• References
Introduction

• Finite Element Analysis (FEA) in Abaqus is used to simulate the fatigue

behaviour of glass fibre reinforced concrete (GFRC) slabs.
Understanding this behavior helps optimize design for enhanced
durability and reliability in real-world applications.
• Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the fatigue behavior
of GFRC slabs using FEA in Abaqus, aiming to understand how these
materials respond to cyclic loading over time.
Introduction
• Glass fibres are produced by melting silica-based raw materials at high
temperatures and extruding the molten glass through fine nozzles to form thin
strands. These fibres are then added to concrete to reinforce the material,
improving its tensile strength, reducing cracking, and enhancing durability.
• Advantages of Glass Fibre Rebar:
• Corrosion resistance
• Lightweight
• Non-conductive
• Design flexibility
• Thermal insulation
Introduction
• To make glass fibre-reinforced concrete: Mix cement, sand, aggregate,
and water and place glass fibre-reinforced rebar in the formwork for
additional reinforcement; pour and compact the concrete mix; let it
cure; finish the surface. The glass fibres enhance tensile strength, and
the reinforced rebar provides structural support. This process creates
a durable concrete that resists cracking and improves overall strength
Literature Survey
Sl. Paper title Journal Name Authors and Important findings
No. Year of
Publication
1 Durability of GFRP bars Construction and Daoguang  Concrete cover depth and
embedded in concrete Building Materials Jia, water-to-cement ratio affect
Qingyong the durability of GFRP bars
Guo in humid environments.
Reduction in W/C ratio
negatively impacts GFRP
reinforcing bars
2 Experimental and finite D. Mehmet  The experimental and finite
element analysis on the Özcan a,*, element failure behavior of
steel fiber-reinforced Alemdar SRFC beams are
concrete Bayraktar a compared in this study.
(SFRC) beams ultimate , The beam model was
behavior Abdurrahma loaded to break while
n S- deflection and strain data
ahin a on the external concrete
, Tefaruk surfaces were monitored.
Haktanir b Finite element failure
Sl. No. Paper title
3 Use of geopolymer concrete
For a cleaner and sustainable
environment A review Of
mechanical properties And
microstructure
4 Predicting the compressive
strength of concrete with fly
ash admixture using machine
learning algorithms
Journal Name Author and Year of Important findings
Publication
Amer et.al Journal of cleaner This paper reviews that
production 2019 geopolymer concrete can be a
possible replacement for OPC ,
it has excellent ressistance
against chemical attack. It has
accepctable Properties to
replace OPC.
Hongweietal Construction and This paper reviews that from
building materials the study different algorithms
2021 ML havebetter performance
With less variance between
the actual and predicted
values.
Sl. No. Paper title
5 Prediction and sensitivity
analysis of compressive
strength in segregated
lightweight concrete based
on artificial neural network
using ultrasonic
pulse velocity
6 Assessment of the
mechanical performance of
crumb rubber concrete
Journal Name Author and Year of Important findings
Publication
A.J. Tenza-Abril Construction and This paper reviews that ANN
et.al building materials was found to be suitable to
2018 predict the compression
strength research in an non-
destructive manner, The
Criteria to select the best
model was according to R2,
MAPE, MSE, and RMSE.
Construction and Osama Youssf et.al, This paper reviews that Pre-
building 2016 treatment of rubber particles
materials in NaOH solution
was the best pre treatment
period , It recovered the
compressive strength lost by
using non-treated rubber .
Sl. Paper title Journal Name Authors and Important findings
No. Year of
Publication
7 Weka Deeplearning4j: A Knowledge based Steven lang  In this paper this tool
deep learning package for system et.al, 2019 provides a unified
weka based on deep environment for comparing
learning4j deep learning models
against other techniques,
this allows the
incorporation of deep
learning models into users
existing weka workflows

8 Devising a computational Procedia Daniel  This paper reviews about

model based on data mining Alencar et.al, the study of regression
techniques to predict 2017 algorithms implemented in
concrete compressive weka an educational data
strength mining software package
for the prediction task
Sl. Paper title Journal Name Authors and Important findings
No. Year of
Publication
9 Text categorization Machine learning Donatella Mer  This paper shown how it is
with WEKA: A survey with applications lini et.al, possible to build supervised
2021 learning models for text
categorization, using WEKA as
the only tool.

10 Procedia Daniel  This paper reviews about

Alencar et.al, the study of regression
2017 algorithms implemented in
weka an educational data
mining software package
for the prediction task
Sl. Paper title Journal Name Authors Important findings
No. and Year
of
Publicatio
n
11 PREDICTION OF Civil and Hatem  In this study, a single-
GEOPOLYMER environmental ALMASAEI hidden layer feed-
CONCRETE engineering D.et al. forward-propagation
COMPRESSIVE 2022 artificial neural network
STRENGTH UTILIZING model was traine and
ARTIFICIAL validated in order to
NEURAL NETWORK predict the concrete
AND compressive
NONDESTRUCTIVE strength.
TESTING  The optimum model
was found to have five
hidden nodes
12 Predictive Capabilities of Abdulhameed Journal of  In this study, a neural
Multilayer Perceptron Umar Abubakar cement network based model
(MLP) in WEKA Algorithm et.al based available in Weka
for High composite Algorithms, was utilized
Strength Concrete with 2020 to test the predictive
Sl. Paper title Journal Name Authors and Important findings
No. Year of
Publication
13 Sulfuric acid resistance of Machine learning M.A.M.  This study presents an
blended ash geopolymer with applications Ariffin et.al, investigation into the
concrete 2013 durability of geopolymer
concrete
 The results of geopolymer
and OPC concretes were
compared and discussed.

14 Analysis of WEKA Data International Sushilkumar  This study found that

Mining Algorithm REPTree, journal of science Kalmegh random tree algorithm
Simple Cart and Random et.al, performs best in
Tree for Classification 2017 categorizing all the values.
 Overall Performance of
REPTree and Simple Cart
algorithm is not acceptable,
Sl. No. Paper title Journal Name Author and Year of Important findings
Publication
15 Rubber concrete : Mechanical Case study in Najib N etal, 9th july 2018 This paper posses even
and dynamic properties construction though the rubberized
materials concrete mixture has
reduced compression
strength, it can be used in
certain structural
application as it posesses
lower density, higher
toughness, high impact
resistance compared to
conventional concrete.
 Summary of the literature review
• Use of geopolymer Concrete is energy efficient and Sustainable method
Of construction for Modern industry
• Use of crumb rubber in concrete will reduce environmental pollution
• Carbon-dioxide emission will be reduced by using geopolymer instead of
cement
• Machine learning methods like ANN Provides good prediction for
Structural properties like Compression strength using numbers of data
• Machine learning is an effective Tool and easy to use .
• Neural network based Model available in weka algorithm is suitable to
find the strength of concrete as it consumes less time and high accuracy .
Objectives
• To create the model of GFRC slab using abaqus.
• To stimulate fatigue loading conditions.
• To analyse stress distribution, crack propagation, and failure modes.
• To identify critical regions prone to fatigue failure.
• To Validate and verify FEA results to ensure accuracy and reliability.
Methodology
Collection of literature review

Model development in abaqus

Material modelling in abaqus

Loading definition in abaqus

Analysing setup

Fatique analysis

Result

Conclusion