ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an approach for analysis, simulation, back-calculation, and design of strain-hardening cement composites (SHCC) systems and is applicable to all classes of textile-reinforced concrete (TRC), engineered cementitious composites (ECC), ultrahigh-performance cement-based composites (UHPFRC), and SHCC composites. Testing of flexural samples may indicate formation of diagonal tension cracks due to shear failure, but provisions for shear cracking are not accounted for in the present approach. Parametric studies evaluate the effect of different parameters on the moment-curvature and load-deflection response. Due to the nature of modeling, a unique set of properties from the flexural tests cannot be obtained as long as there are a range of tensile properties that may result in similar flexural responses. The tensile properties can be back-calculated from the flexural response by means of an inverse analysis and can be measured with experimentally obtained data.
