Hierarchical Modeling of Mastic Asphalt in Layered Road Structures Based on the Mori-Tanaka Method
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Valenta , Richard
Šejnoha , Michal
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We present an application of the Mori-Tanaka micromechanical model for a description of the highly nonlinear behavior of asphalt mixtures. This method is expected to replace an expensive finite element-based fully-coupled multi-scale analysis while still providing useful information about local fields on the meso-scale that are not predictable by strictly macroscopic simulations. Drawing on our recent results from extensive experimental and also numerical investigations this paper concentrates on principal limitations of the Mori-Tanaka method, typical of all two-point averaging schemes, when appliedto material systems prone to evolving highly localized deformation patterns such as a network of shear bands. The inability of the Mori-Tanaka method to properly capture the correct stress transfer between phases with increasing compliance of the matrix phase is remedied here by introducing a damage like parameter into the local constitutive equation of reinforcements (stones) to control an amount of stress taken by this phase. A deficiency of the Mori-Tanaka method in the prediction of creep response is also mentioned particularly in the light of large scale simulations. A comparison with the application of macroscopic homogenized constitutive model for an asphalt mixture is also presented.
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