Considering the essential influencing factors for the mechanical properties of the engineered cementitious composite (ECC), the polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber was used and a batch of cube specimens and thin plate specimens of PVA-ECC were manufactured based on the variation of water cement ratio, amount of fly ash and amount of water reducer. The compressive strength test for the PVA-ECC cube specimens and the flexural strength test for the PVA-ECC thin plate specimens were conducted. A practical decision-making frame based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method was proposed to solve the problem of the optimal mix proportion of PVA-ECC, which can take into account the compressive strength, the flexural strength and the corresponding deformation capacity together.

A linearization method of the uniaxial non-fitting nonlinear stress-strain curve given by the author of the paper is presented. The evolution equation between disturbances variable and plastic strain is derived based on Theory of Duality Disturbance. A simple method for concrete structures preforming elastoplastic analysis is presented (including softening analysis).