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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 108
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
Edited by: J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis and B.H.V. Topping
Paper 150

Modelling Fresh Concrete Flow through Reinforcing Bars with Computational Homogenization

F. Kolarík1, B. Patzák1 and J. Zeman1,2

1Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU in Prague, Czech Republic
2Centre of Excellence IT4Innovations, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
, "Modelling Fresh Concrete Flow through Reinforcing Bars with Computational Homogenization", in J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 150, 2015. doi:10.4203/ccp.108.150
Keywords: flow, concrete, homogenization, Darcy, Stokes, multi-scale.

Summary
This paper focuses on modeling of fresh concrete flow through the reinforcement. The fresh concrete is considered as a single homogeneous fluid. A Newtonian model is used as a first approximation of the constitutive relation. Flow of the concrete through the reinforced area is modeled as a Darcy flow in a porous media. Permeability of the porous area is obtained by homogenization of the Stokes flow over a representative volume element. Comparison of the homogenized solution and direct simulation is discussed.

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