An Improved Concrete Damage Model for Impact Analysis of Concrete Structural Components by using Finite Element Method

This paper presents the development of an improved concrete damage model for projectile impact on concrete structural components. The improvement is in terms of reduction of input material parameters for nonlinear transient dynamic impact analysis by employing concrete damage model. The experimental data such as pressure vs volumetric strain, triaxial compression failure and pressure vs stress difference have been used for evaluation of the important parameters of concrete damage model. Various contact algorithms have been outlined briefly to model the interface between the projectile and target. The nonlinear explicit transient dynamic analysis has been carried out by using finite element method to compute the responses. It is observed that the computed penetration depth obtained in the present study is in good agreement with those values of corresponding experimental studies and LS-DYNA.