Fracture Behavior of Epoxy Asphalt Pavement on Steel Bridges based on Optical Fiber Sensing Technology and Numerical Simulation

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2014-04-14
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ThedistributedopticalfibersensingtechnologywasusedtoinvestigatethefracturebehavioroftheEpoxyAsphaltMixture.Thespatialdistributionandvariationofthestraindevelopmentwithcrackpropagationwereacquiredusingthebrillouinopticaltime-domainreflectometerthroughtheloadingexperimentsofthecompositebeamstructure.Inaddition,afiniteelementmodelofthecompositebeamstructurewasdevelopedtoanalyzethemechanicalresponsesoftheepoxyasphaltmixtureusingtheextendedfiniteelementmethod.Theexperimentalresultsshowthatthedevelopmentofcrackpropagationbecomesinstablewiththeincreaseoftheload,andlargerloadswillgeneratedeepercracks.Moreover,thenumericalresultsshowthatthemechanicalresponseofthecracktipchangeswiththecrackpropagation,andtheworstareasthatsubjectedtocrackdamagearelocatedonbothsidesofthecompositebeamstructure.