XIAO Dong1, CHEN Shuang1, LU Ping1, LIU Hongyuan2, PENG Dekun3, HE Dongdong2, WEN Lina2, ZHAO Zhi2
Journal of Vibration and Shock. 2025, 44(20): 116-123.
To study the influence of earthquake action on the fracture behavior and failure mode of concrete, a three-point bending test was conducted on a concrete beam with a prefabricated gap in the center under earthquake level strain rates (10-6 s-1~10-3 s-1), with a focus on the effect of strain rate on the P-CMOD curve, fracture toughness, and fracture energy of the specimen; At the same time, real-time monitoring of concrete fracture damage is carried out by combining acoustic emission (AE) technology, and AE characteristic parameters are used to characterize the signal of concrete crack propagation, damage evolution, and failure mode under dynamic fracture load. The experimental results showed that as the strain rate increased from 10-6 s-1 to 10-3 s-1, the peak load of the specimen increased by 32.8%, the initiation toughness and instability toughness increased by about 2 times and 1 time respectively, the fracture energy increased by 32.4%, the AE energy increased by 67.3%, but the cumulative ringing count decreased by 29.7%, the number of damage sources decreased significantly, the width of the fracture process zone narrowed, and the fracture surface became flatter and smoother; As the strain rate increases, the proportion of tensile cracks decreases, while shear cracks increase. At the seismic strain rate level, tensile failure is still the main mode, and fracture failure still belongs to “type I”. It can be seen that there is a significant rate correlation between the fracture behavior, damage evolution, and failure mode of concrete; On the other hand, it is feasible to use acoustic emission technology to describe the fracture damage and evolution process of concrete under dynamic loads, which can provide reliable and efficient detection methods for understanding the characteristics of concrete crack propagation and early warning of fracture failure under seismic strain rates.