Nowadays, lightweight foamed concrete (LFC) is increasingly being used for structural purposes. Physical and mechanical properties of LFC are unlike the properties of traditional concrete thus constitutive models for concrete may not be used directly to describe its the fracture behavior. The paper presents an attempt to adapt the elastoplastic model with degradation known as Barcelona model for this purpose. The constitutive model is traditionally used for non-linear analyses of concrete and masonry structures. However, when it is used to describe behavior of non-traditional material such as foamed concrete, its parameters must be calibrated. Moreover, the results from Barcelona model are compared with XFEM method of modeling discontinuities in materials. The results of numerical simulations of three-point bending foamed beam with an initial notch are presented.

Analysis of the construction market in Poland and its trends in the recent years indicates a resurgence of prefabricated technology in residential construction. The main period of prefabrication development in Poland was in the 1970s. when it was referred to as large panel. According to a report by Building Research Institute, buildings constructed with large panels are characteristics for their high durability and any damage occurring in the buildings built using the technology can be divided into two groups. The first is damage similar to that occurring in traditional construction, such as damage to partition walls, roof covering or installations. The other is damage related to the prefabrication technology itself, i.e. the production of elements (material damage) and their assembly (damage at connections). Other potential threats include mining activity in the case of buildings located in mining areas and gas explosions related to the gas systems present in this type of building. This paper, therefore, attempts to recreate the process and consequences of an explosion in a closed room of a multi-family building using a numerical model. The simulations are based on: literature data (concerning calculating and applying explosion actions) and own experience in assessing the response of a concrete structure described using an elastic-plastic-damage (e-p-d) model. The result of the analyses included indication of areas directly affected by risk of loss of stability (with potential expansion of disaster area). The paper also presents the effect of “expulsion” of an external wall due to explosion. It was found that structure failure states obtained in the analyses are fully compatible in qualitative sense with observed real construction disasters caused by explosions. Real quantitative trustworthiness should result from laboratory tests of materials from which the buildings under analysis are built of.

The paper presents a simplified methodology for the analysis of static building construction longwall when within the horizontal projection of the foundation can find a local threshold or a fault area. It shows the formulation of the basic assumptions of work and provides theoretical considerations leading to the determination of additional load rigid structure located above the gap. Then formulated a way that the separation of the designated load spatial body of the building on each side of the building. The results were confronted with the results of the analyzes of numerical aspects of behavior of buildings on the emerging facet of land in the form of a threshold. Analyzed the structures of rigid construction, constructed in accordance with the principles set out in the guidelines. The analysis was performed by MES with the program Abaqus and the Robot program. It adopted with the assumption that the fault coverage will not exceed the defined work called. critical distance. In the construction of the model surface mining in addition to the model of linear-elastic and model Winkler's used for substrates simplest models of the material elastic-plastic-model of the surface of plasticity in the form of a condition Coulomb-Mohr and Drucker-Prager, and model the mechanics of the critical state of Modified-Cam-Clay.