Prediction of Service Life in Concrete Structures based on Diffusion Model in a Marine Environment Using Mesh Free, FEM and FDM Approaches

  • سال انتشار: 1399
  • محل انتشار: Journal of Rehabilitation in Civil Engineering، دوره: 8، شماره: 4
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_CIVLJ-8-4_001
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 117
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نویسندگان

Atiye Farahani

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Tafresh University, Tafresh, Iran

Hosein Taghaddos

Assistant Professor, School of Civil Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

چکیده

Chloride-induced corrosion is a key factor in the premature corrosion of concrete structures exposed to a marine environment. Fick's second law of diffusion is the dominant equation to model diffusion of chloride ions. This equation is traditionally solved by Finite Element Method (FEM) and Finite Difference Method (FDM). Although these methods are robust and efficient, they may face some numerical issues due to discretization process. This study solves the Fick's equation using the Element-Free Galerkin (EFG) method as well as traditional FEM and FDM. The results of these numerical methods are compared together, and validated with the analytical solution in special cases. The results show that the EFG method predicts the service life of the concrete structures, more accurately than the other methods, and exhibits the lowest displacement error and energy error for a constant diffusion coefficient problem. FDM can be performed very efficiently for simple models, and the displacement errors produced by this method do not differ considerably from the EFG results. Therefore, FDM could compete with the EFG method in simple geometries. FEM can be used with a sufficient number of elements while the convergence of the results should be controlled. However, in complicated models, FEM and especially the EFG method are much more flexible than FDM.

کلیدواژه ها

Concrete, Diffusion, Element-Free Galerkin (EFG), Finite element method (FEM), Finite Difference Method (FDM)

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