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Table 1 Input data used for the multi-physics analysis

From: Failure Mechanisms and Rehabilitation Scenarios for Concrete Hydroelectric Facilities Affected by Alkali–Aggregate Reaction

Property

Symbol

Value

Unit

Mass density of concrete

\(\rho \)

2400

kg/m3

Young’s modulus of concrete

\({E}_{c}\)

27,500

MPa

Compressive strength of concrete

\({f}_{c}^{^{\prime}}\)

30.0

MPa

Tensile strength of concrete

\({f}_{t}^{^{\prime}}\)

1.8

MPa

Poisson’s ratio of concrete

\(\nu \)

0.18

Mode I fracture energy of concrete

GF

0.15

kN/m

Yield strength of reinforcement

\({f}_{y}\)

400

MPa

Young’s modulus of reinforcement

\({E}_{s}\)

200,000

MPa

Young’s modulus of rock

\({E}_{r}\)

50,000

MPa

Poisson’s ratio of rock

\(\nu \)

0.25

Long-term volumetric AAR strain

\({\varepsilon }_{v\infty }\)

0.006

Reference temperature

T0

\(5\)

°\(C\)

Latency time

\({\tau }_{l}\)

95

Years

Characteristic time

\({\tau }_{c}\)

13

Years

Activation energy for characteristic time

\({U}_{c}\)

5400

°\(K\)

Activation energy for latency time

\({U}_{L}\)

9400

°\(K\)

Compressive limiting stress for AAR

\({\sigma }_{u}\)

10.0

MPa