Complete Stress–Strain Relations of Early-Aged Cementitious Grout under Compression: Experimental Study and Constitutive Model

Abstract

The compressive stress–strain behaviors of early-aged cementitious grout specimens were experimentally investigated, and the differences of characteristic parameters of the stress–strain curve and the energy evolution law of each specimen under uniaxial compression were discussed in this study. The results indicate that with an increase in the specimen age, the peak stress, peak strain, ultimate strain, elastic modulus, peak secant modulus, strain ductility coefficient, and energy-dissipation coefficient of the prism specimens gradually improved. Additionally, a comparison of the test results of cementitious grout specimens and concrete specimens with the same age reveals that the peak stress, peak strain, and ultimate strain of cementitious grout specimens were greater than that of concrete specimens, the elastic modulus and peak secant modulus of the specimens were less than that of concrete specimens, and the strain ductility coefficient and energy-dissipation coefficient show no consistent conclusions with respect to the material type. Moreover, comparing the energy evolution curves of specimens with different specimen ages shows that the decrease rate of the elastic strain rate and the increase rate of the dissipated energy rate gradually decreased with the increase in specimen age. The elastic strain rate and dissipated energy rate of the CGM−270 specimen and control specimens were greater than that of other specimens, and the decrease rate of the elastic strain rate was less than that of other specimens. Based on the statistical damage theory, a statistically stochastic damage constitutive model was derived by considering the characteristics of cementitious grout according to the compression test results. A comparison of the proposed models with the experimental results indicated that the proposed stress–strain constitutive models were sufficiently accurate.