Fracture of concrete under variable amplitude fatigue loading

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 272-283

  Slowik, Volker ^a   Plizzari, Giovanni Angelo ^a   Saouma, Victor E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Concretes; Crack propagation; Dams; Earthquake resistant structures; Fatigue (materials); Fracture properties

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE DAMS; CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFECTS; DYNAMIC LOADS; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS;

EARTHQUAKE LOADS; FATIGUE LOADING; FRACTURE MECHANICS BASED EMPIRICAL LAW; LOADING HISTORY; SINUSOIDAL OSCILLATION; SPIKES;

CONCRETES;

EID: 0030144976     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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