Projects of the Second Period

In the first funding period of the priority programme, damage mechanisms in the fatigue process were investigated experimentally, taking into account defined influences, described using damage indicators and modelled using various approaches, initially for a few load cycles.

In the second funding period of the priority programme, the focus of the work is on determining supplementary findings on the mechanisms of fatigue damage, further developing the models and linking them to the Experimental Virtual Lab with the aim of predicting degradation. Among other things, the influence of more complex stress time courses in terms of operational loads on the damage mechanisms is to be investigated and evaluated with regard to damage accumulation. In addition to the cross-scale modelling of the geometry, innovative multi-scale methods of the temporal course are also to be considered in particular, which enable the modelling of high numbers of load cycles in limited simulation time.


Anders / Schröder / Brands

Understanding and Modeling the Effect of Steel-fibres on Degradation of High-Performance Concrete subjected to Fatigue.

Breitenbücher / Meschke

Influence of microfibers on the degradation of high performance concrete under cyclic loading. 

Dosta / Ritter / Schmidt-Döhl

High resolution electron microscopy of fatigue behavior in high performance concrete and multiscale modelling using a bonded particle model.

Empelmann / Dinkler

Damage Processes in Ultra-High Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Under Cyclic Tensile Loading.

Fischer / Große / Volkmer / Peter

Multiscale modelling of the degradation progress in the localised fracture zone of carbon fibre reinforced high-performance concrete subjected to high-cycle tension and flexural tension fatigue loading.

Lohaus / Haist / Wriggers / Aldakheel

Water-induced damage mechanisms of cyclic loaded high-performance concretes. 

Mechtcherine / Kaliske

Increasing the fatigue resistance of highly ductile concrete by experimental-virtual multi-scale material design.

Steeb / Garrecht

Temperature- and moisture-induced damage processes due to cyclic multiaxial compressive fatigue loading.

Chudoba / Claßen

Experimental and numerical framework for characterization of high-strength concrete fatigue accounting for local dissipative mechanisms at subcritical load levels.

Lohaus / Oneschkow

Central Project