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CEMENT and CONCRETE RESEARCH. Vol. 3, pp. 583-599, 1973. Pergamon Press, Inc
Printed in the United States.
A NUMERICAL APPROACH TO THE COMPLETE
STRESS-STRAIN CURVEOF CONCRETE
Sandor Popovics
College of Engineering
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
Communicated by R. E. Philleo)
ABSTRACT
This paper presents the experimental jus tification of two
previously published formulas, Eqs. 2) and 6), for the
estimation of the complete stress-strain diagram of con-
crete. Eq. 2) combined with Eq. 3) differs from the other
formulas offered in the literature for similar purpose in
that provides more relative curvature in the diagram for
concretes of lower strengths. Also, with Eq. 6), i t can
take the fact into consideration that the value of ¢0 in-
creases with increasing concrete strength. The result of
these refinements is that the stress-strain diagrams cal-
culated by these formulas f i t better the experimentally
obtained diagrams and within wider limits than the similar
formulas available in the li terature. Figs. 5a through 5d,
8a through 8d, and 9.)
Diese Arbeit veranschaulicht die experimentelle Rechtfertigung
zweier frUher verBffentlichter Formeln, Gleichungen 2) und 6)
zur Bestimmung des vollst~ndigen Spannungs-Dehnungs-Diagramms
des Betons. Die mit Gleichung 2 verbundene Gleichung 3 weicht
insofern yon den anderen, bisher in der Literatur bekannten
Formeln der gelichen Richtung ab, als sie mehr relative
KrUmmungen in dem Diagramm fur Beton niederer Festigkeit auf-
zeit. Auch kann man mit Gleichung 6 annehmen, dab der Wert
¢o mit zunehmender Beton festigkeit zunimmt. Das Resultat
d]eser Verbesserungen zeigt, dab die mit diesen Formeln berech-
neten Spannungs-Dehnungs-Diagramme sich besser und im weiteren
Rahmen den experimentell erhaltenen angleichen, als ~hnliche
Formeln, die man der Literatur entnehmen kann.
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Introduction
This paper is the continuation of the previous work of the wr it er
on the stress-strain diagram. I) - 3) The purpose of th is study is
a) to present formulas for the estimation of the complete st ress-s train
diagram of normal-weight concrete, made with a given aggregate and tested
with a given procedure, under short-term loading either sole ly from the
f compressive strength or from the combination of the compressive strength
o
and the measured C unit st ra in in concrete at the f ult imate stress Fig.
o
l ) ; and b) to show the applicabi l i ty of these formulas by demonstrating
thei r goodness of f i t to pertinent experimental results.
The discussion of the stress-strain curve of concrete is timely from
a theoretical point of view because deformations may provide ind irec t
information concerning the internal structure as well as the fai lur e mech-
anism of concrete. From a practical standpoint, the ultimate-strength
design of reinforced concrete elements brought the stress-st ra in relat ion-
ship into focus. Also, a knowledge of the deformabil ity of concrete is
necessary to compute def lections of st ructures, to compute stresses from
observed st ra ins, to design sections of highway slabs, to compute loss pre-
stress in prestressed elements, etc. 4) In the study of models of concrete
structures, i t is also necessary to know the st ress -st rain characteristics
of the model material so that dimensional simi lar ity may be obtained.
Stress-Strain Diagram for Compression
The diagram is influenced considerably by the test ing conditions type
of the test ing machine, rate and duration of loading, size and shape of the
specimen, size and location of the st ra in gages, number of load repet it ions,
etc. ) as well as by the age and composition of concrete, especial ly by
the type and quanti ty of aggregate and by the porosity, in a similar but
not ident ical way as the concrete strength is influenced by most of these
factors. 2)
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/ / ~ C o n s t a n t r a t e o f s t r e s s
/ - : -
/ / ~ C o n s t a n t
,
~ / / r a t e o f s t r a i n ~ .
/ / i - - . . .
t I
E U n i t S t r a i n
F i g . 1 . Two t y p i c a l s t r e s s s t r a i n c u rv e s f o r c o n c r e t e u nd er u n i a x i a l l o a d .
The top curve i s c h a ra c t e r i s t i c o f a load ing p rocess where the
r a t e o f s tr e s s i n c r e a s e is k e p t c o n s t a n t d u r i n g t he t e s t i n g . The
bo ttom curve i s o b ta ined by keep ing the ra te o f s t r a in inc rease
c o n s t a n t .
Another interest ing fact is that the stress-strain diagrams for stones
and hardened cement pastes under uni-axial loading are practica ll y straight
lines almost up to the ultimate stress. Yet the same diagram is curved
for mortars consisting essential ly of the same two comoonents, and even more
curved for concretes Figs. 2 and 3), as has been pointed out by Gilkey and
Murphy 5). This paradox can be explained in qualitative terms by the
internal cracking 7) and creep of the hardened paste in concrete under
load that are produced by the stress, especially by the stress concentrations,
result ing from the embedded aggregate particles 8). However, the exact
nature of this problem is so complex that only empirical formulas are avai l-
able in the literature for numerical approximation of the stress-strain
diagram. These formulas have been discussed elsewhere. 1)
In most of these formulas the E/Eo rat io is a fixed number regardless
of the concrete strength. Thi s res tr icts the limits of val id it y of these
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Fig. 2.
m
o -
or)
Q
t i
Q
I Z :
. . o
I .O O i
0 8 0
0 6 0
0 . 4 0 .
O ZO
O K
0
P a s t e s
n ~ 1 2
/7 f o , p s i
. . . . . . . . 5 8 2 5
- - - - - - 5 2 2 0
- - 4 3 5 O
8 3 3 5
0 . 2 0 0 . 4 0 0 . 6 0 0 . 8 0
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
m
1.00
1.00 '
w 0 8 0
Ik..
11-
0.60
_u 0 4 0
n,,
~ 0 .20 ,
0
M o r t a r s
f o , p s i n
. 17 45 1.9
2 . 5 4 5 0 2 .0
3 . 5 8 0 0 Z I
4 . 4 5 6 0 2 .4
5 . 4 7 0 5 2 . 5
6 . 7 5 6 0 2 ,8
7 . 1 0 9 7 0 3 . 0
8 . 1 5 4 7 0 3 . 7
0 0 . 2 0 0 . 4 0 0 . 6 0 0 . 8 0
~ ' / ~ o R e l a t i v e S t r a i n
1.00
Relative stress-strain diagrams for hardened pastes and mortars of
various strengths along with the best f i t values of n. The curves
were published by Gilkey and Murphy. 5)
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Fig. 3.
1.0
e e 0 . 8
m
Q
t .
0 -
0.6
_ >
¢}
O 0 . 4 -
0 .2 -
oncrete
f o p s i
i . 1200
2 . 1600
3 . 2 2 5 0
4 . 3 0 0 0
5 . 4 5 0 0
6 . 6 0 0 0
n
1.4
1.7
2.0
2.5
3.0
4 . 5
0 0 . 2 0 . 4 0 . 6 0 6 1 .0
• ~ R e l a t i v e S t r a i n
Re la t i ve s t re ss -s t ra in d iagrams fo r concretes o f var ious compressive
stren gths a lon~ w i th the best f i t va lues of n. The curves were
pub l ished by Rusch. (6)
formulas because experimental data show that the E/Eo ratio varies from
near 4 for normal concretes of l,O00 psi to about 1.3 for concretes of
lO,O00 psi . Consequently, when such a formula f i t s a concrete of medium
strength, i t wi l l over estimate the stress fo r a given strain in the ascend-
ing branch of the st ress-s train diagram for the high-strength concretes and
under estimate i t for low-strength concretes. (9) Formulas with variable
E/Eo rat ios are more fl ex ible because they can take the composition of the
concrete into consideration di rect ly or indi rect ly , such as through the
on rete
strength. Such a formula is the fol lowing (3):
n - l
f = EE l)
n - l + (E/Eo)n
or, considering that at = EO~E = (fo/Eo)n/(n - I ) ,
f - o
n
2
n - l + (~/~_)n
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where the n power can be expressed as an approximate function of the
compressive strength of normal-weight concrete as follows:
nconcrete = 0 4xi0-3 fo + l.O 3)
Similar formulas for cement mortars and pastes are:
nmortar = O'15xlO-3 fo + 1.5 4)
and
npast e = 12. 5)
The long fractions in Eqs. I) and 2) represent the deviation from
the linear el as ti ci ty . This might be ut il ized in the future for the analysis
of crack propagation in concrete. Note also that these equations, combined
with Eq. 3), di ff er from the other formulas offered in the li te rature for
simi lar purpose in that they provide more re lat ive curvature in the diagram
for concretes of lower strengths.
Figure 4 il lus tra tes Eq. 2) in relative terms for normal-weight con-
cretes and pastes. I t is impossible to produce a single formula similar
to Eq. 3) for lightweight concretes in general because the various types
of such concretes have greatly dif fering deformabi lit ies. For instance,
gas concretes show nearly linear elasticity while concretes made with ex-
panded blast-furnace slag as aggregate have highly curved stress-strain
diagrams. (lO) I t should also be pointed out that the formulas above
are valid only for standard concrete specimens with a height-width ratio
not less than two, and when the uniaxial compressive load is a short-term
load which is applied at a rate that produces constant rate of strain in
the specimen. (Fig. l)
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1.0 - - f,,= 2 0 0 0 ps i
0 8 0
/ / / / / A / f _ _ . ~.L~. n _ \ ~ 6 0 0 0
,0 00
- ~ H i l l / . I \
= /
, .= 0 .2 / ~
~ . ~ : . . . . .
0 0 .2 0 . 4 0 .6 0 .8 1 .0 1 .2 1 .4 1 .6 1 .8 2 .0
6 /£0 Relat ive Stra in
Fig. 4. Calculated relative stress-strain diagrams for normal-weight
concretes of various compressive strengths and for cement pastes.
Compa.rison to Experimental Data
It has been shown in qualitat ive terms 3) that Eqs. 2) through 5)
are more suitable for the description of the stress-strain diagram of a
concrete than the formulas with fixed E/Eo rat io. However, i t has not
been examined yet that to what extent experimental data support these for-
mulas. This examination is presented below for two di fferent situations:
a) when both the fo and theG o values are available; and b) the more
practical case, when only the value of fo is available. Incidental ly,
Eq. l ) is not recommended for practical purposes, although i t is an inter-
esting formula because, for a given n value, i t expresses the stress values
purely in terms of deformations.
In the fi rs t situation, that is, when both fo and Lo are measured
for a concrete, mortar, or paste, the corresponding value of n can be cal-
culated from one of Eqs. 3) through 5), and used with Eq. 2). Since Eqs.
3) through S) were obtained by f i t t ing the curves of Figure 4 to those in
Figures 2 and 3, the stress-strain diagrams calculated in this way obviously
f i t the pertinent experimental data by Gilkey 5), and by R~sch 6). Other
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8
7
6 -
. S-
9
~ 4 -
,23
I -
0
8
7 -
6
~ , . ~ w / ¢ = 3 3
.50 ~
~ a
.
o
E . S t r a i n , i n / In X I O 3 )
W/C 3340
/ / i i f . . . . o o
/S
2 3 4 5
L~. S t r a i n , i n / i n X I O s )
7
6
5 ~
X 4 -
?.
3 -
I
o
o
i i i i g
8 -
~ - ' w / ~ , ~ . 33
7
/ /
x 4
l b o y s l ~
.67 ~
t o o I
o
o
w / c , 3 3
K
// I// ~ i 90 days
LO
I 2 3 4 5
E S t r a i n , i n /i n X I O s )
L~: F . S t r a i n , i n / i n X I 0 3 )
Figs. 5a through 5d. Comparison of experimental stress-strain diagrams
of various concretes (continuous lines) to those plotted from
Eq. 2) with Eq. 3) (dash lines). The experimental curves were
taken from Reference (ll).
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L e g e n d
591
T h e c o m p l e t e c u rv e w a s o b ta in e d
e x p e r i m e n t a l l y .
f : f
- I + ( F . / ' & . )
n - o . 4 x lO S ~ o l
f . a n d . w e r e o b t a in e d e x p e r i m e n t a l l y .
f : f . ~ n - , . r } , ~ . .
n . o . , x , o f . I
( ; 2 . 7 x I 0 4
w a s o b t a in e d e x p e r i m e n t a l l ~
curves calculated with Eqs. 2) and 3) are compared in Figures 5a through
5d with experimental curves published by Hognestad et. al . l l ) The com-
parison is done with 20 pairs of diagrams representing five water-cement
ratios and four ages. I t can be seen that despite the wide ranges in water-
cement rat io from 0.33 to l.O by weight) and age at testing from 7 to
90 days), the calculated diagrams f i t the experimental curves quite wel l.
In the second si tuat ion, when only fo is given, the value of Eo can
be estimated from one of the available formulas in the li te ra tu re , and
then this value used with Eq. 2) again, as mentioned above. A convenient
form of such a formula was presented earl ier - 3) from certain considerations,
but without experimental just i fi ca ti on , as follows:
4 4
kx1o
6
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4
0
3
X
_=
r
°
. 2
7
6
o =
5
=
o
7 d a y s
x 1 4 d a y s
o 2 8 d a y s
A 9 0 d a y s
£ , = 2 . 7 X 1 0 4 X
m
A
I X
0
I J w i I I l,og ~ool~
1 .3 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
f~ p s i x I 0 ~
Fig. 6. Example for the relationship between~o and fo for normal-weight
concretes of various ages. The experi6ental data were taken
from a paper by Hognestad et al. l l ) .
where k is a function of the type of mineral aggregate used and the applied
test method. As can be seen from Figure 6, Eq. 6) is supported quite well
by the test results on normal-weight concretes that were published by
Hognestad et al. l l ) , although the f i t could be improved by including
the age as an extra variable). Figure 7 shows that test results published
by Watanabe 12) again support Eq. 6). The difference between the defor-
mabilities of lightweight and normal-weight concretes is also illustrated
in this figure.
Returning to the original question, Figures 8a through 8d demonstrate
the goodness of f i t of the curves calculated from the pertinent combination
of Eqs. 2), 3) and 6) the latter with k = 2.7 in~/Ib~) to the same exper-
imental curves that were discussed in connection with Figures 5a through
5d. Figure 9 shows another comparison, with k = 2.2 in~/Ib~, to a set of
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7
6
4
u
X
¢
o l i g h t w e i g h t c o n c r e t e
'--~ o e + n o r m a l - w e i g h t c o n c r e t e
C ° = 2 . 8 5 x 1 0 4 ,~ '~
( l o g s c a l e ]
I I I I I
2 3 5 6 7 8
f o , p s i x I 0 s
Fig. 7. Examples for the relationship between sand fo for l ight-weight
as well as normal-weight concretes. The experimental data were
taken from a paper by Watanabe (12).
experimentally obtained stress-strain diagrams by Smith and Young (9).
I t can be seen again that the presented formulas provide a good estimate
of the complete stress-strain diagram of a concrete. As a matter of fact,
the approximation of the proper combination of these formulas is better
within the given wide ranges of water-cement ra tio, compressive strength,
and age than the approximations of other formulas recommended in the l i t -
erature for the same purpose. (9) (13) - (16)
The stress-strain diagram for a concrete under short-term uniaxial
tension is similar to the diagram produced by compression, except that the
same curve is applicable for a ll the relative tensile stress-st rain diagrams
regardless of the strength. (17) I t is probably more than coincidental
that this single tension curve is very close to the compression curve
presented in Figure 4 for pastes.
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8 - 8
7 7
_ _ W 1 C , . 3 3
f ' - ' - z t , . -
I /
/j
o ....
~ ¢
. -
1 7 a a y ] i C 4 a . s q
- / . 6 7
I , / / / / I Loo
1 0
0 , , ~
~ ~
0 I 2 3 4 - 5 0 I 2 :3 4 5
£ S t r a i n , i n / i n X l O 3 ) ~ E S t r a i n , i n / i n X I O 3 )
8
8 - - . . - - - - - / ~ / / ~ / c . = . ] 3
/ F. ' ° ' ' • /,./I- -...........
/ /
/ /' ......50
/ . . .. .- - 7 / ~ i ~ ° ~ ~
~
I I
- ~ / , 7 / ~ / / / /
l I I z e d o y l i ,,/,~ . ~ . go ~ o y s
/ /
u 2 l / / / / / J o o
~ _ /~/ . . . . ~ . , ~ , ~ - - - - ~ - - , e -
l
~ o o
0
o o i 3 : 4 ~
o i ~ ~ ~
~ . £ S t r a i n , i n / i n ( X I 0 ) ~ . £ S t r a i n , i n / i n ( X l O )
Figs. 8a through 8d. Comparison of experimental stress-strain diagrams
of various concretes continuous lines) to those plotted from
Eq. 2) with Eqs. 3) and 6) dot lines). The experimental curves
were taken from Reference l l).
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Fig. 9.
t
0
8
6
x
w
= 4
( D
2
f = 7 1 8 0 p s i
4 4 4 0
3 5
1 2 7 5
I I i t l I ~ ,
0 I 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 0
S t r a i n m i c r o i n / i n
Comparison of stress-strain diagrams of concrete cylinders (con-
tinuous lines) to those plotted from Eq. 2) with Eqs. 3) and 6)
(dash lines). The experimental curves were taken from Reference
(9).
Supplementary Remarks
(a) The area under any of the stress-strain diagrams calculated from
the presented equations can be determined by numerical integration for
which the computer programming is quite simple.
(b) Di fferentiat ion of Eq. 2) provides the E tangent modulus of
elasticity of the concrete as follows:
n - 1 + E / ~ o ) n - n E / E o ) n
E = df/d = nfo/6 o =
[n -
1
+ ~ l ~ o ) n ] z
1 - , E / ~ o ) n
[ n - 1 + ~ / 8 o ) n ] 2
n n - 1 ) f o / £ o
7
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This becomes E at ~= O, that is
n 8
E / E o = n - 1
which, with Eq. 3), provides the following relationship for normal-weight
concretes:
EIEo : l +
2,5oo 9
fo
This means that E/Eo is 3.5 when fo = l,O00 psi, and is 1.25 when fo =
lO,O00 psi. These figures are in accordance with experimental data.
(c) Since Eo = fo/ o , the combination of Eq. 9) with Eqs. 3) and 6)
provides the following relationship between the compressive strength and
ini t ial modulus of elasti ci ty of concrete:
4
lO fo + 2,500
E - lO)
This equation f i ts reasonably well, within 2,000 and I0,000 psi compres-
sive strength limi ts, the tradit ional empirical formula for normal-weight
concretes:
E = K~ o ll )
(d) I t follows from Eq. 8) that
nf o
12)
to ='(n - I)E
Therefore, with the consideration of Eq. 3):
£o = ~ fo + 2,500) 13)
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If E is given, or i t can be estimated (18), Eq. 13) provides ~o in
terms of the concrete strength. For instance, by substi tut ing Eq. ll ) for
E
2 s o o > 1 4 >
The peculiarity of Eq. 14) is that the value of Eo decreases with the
decrease of fo up to a point (which is in our case 2,500 psi) , then i t
starts increasing so that as fo approaches zero, £o approaches inf in i ty .
Since experimental data, such as shown in Figure 6, do not seem to show
such an increase in ~o at low strengths, one can conclude that Eq. 14) may
not hold for low strength normal-weight concretes because Eq. l l ) may not
hold for such concretes.
Conclusions
The proper combination of Eqs. 2), 3), and 6) seems suitable for the
estimation of the complete stress-strain diagram of normal-weight concretes,
made with a given aggregate and tested with a given procedure, either from
the fo and ~o values, or solely from the values of fo As Figures 5a through
9 demonstrate, the approximation of these formulas is bet ter within the given
wide ranges of water-cement ratio, strength and age than the approximation of
other formulas recommended in the l iterature for the same purpose. Math-
ematical analysis of Eqs. l) through 6) provides addit ional relationships
between the strength and deformation of a concrete.
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STRESS STRAIN CURVES CONCRETE THEORY DATA
NOTATION
The letter symbols used in this paper and thei r defini tions are
as follows:
E
E
f
f
k K
= i n i t i a l m o d u l u s o f e l a s t i c i t y o f t h e c o n c r e t e ,
= s e c a n t m o d u l u s o f e l a s t i c i t y a t t h e f u l t i m a t e
o
s t r e s s , t h a t i s , E o = f o / ~ o '
= t a n g e n t m o d u l u s o f e l a s t i c i t y a t t h e ~ s t r a i n ,
t h a t i s , E = d f / d ,
= a x i a l s t r e s s i n t h e c o n c r e t e s p e cim e n
= u l t i m a t e s t r e s s ; i n c o m p r e ss io n i t m e a ns t h e
c y l i n d e r s t r e n g t h
= e x p e r i m e n t a l p a r a m e t e r s
= u n i t s t r a i n i n c o n c r e t e ca u se d b y t h e f s t r e s s
and
= u n i t s t r a i n i n c o n c r e te a t t h e f o u l t i m a t e s t r e s s .