Abstract: The use of a three-dimensional discrete element method (DEM) is proposed to study concrete structures submitted to dynamic loading. The aim of this paper is to validate the model first in the quasistatic domain, and second ...

Abstract: This paper aims to present a mixed, or combined, numerical approach to modeling advanced degradation and predicting failure in reinforced concrete (RC) structures. The discrete-element method (DEM) is used to model the ...

Abstract: To protect against military invasions and terrorist attacks requires the development of probabilistic models for predicting the effect of various local hard-missile impact effects on reinforced concrete (RC) protective ...