The effect of specimen thickness on fracture behaviour of concrete

Magazine of Concrete Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 117-129

  Wollrab, E ^a   Ouyang, C ^b   Shah, S P ^c   Hamm, J ^d   Konig G ^e  

^a IBTB   (Germany)

^b Iowa Department of Transportation   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; DEFORMATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FRACTURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TENSILE TESTING;

STRESS DEFORMATION CURVES; UNIAXIAL TENSILE LOADING;

CONCRETE TESTING;

EID: 0030166389     PISSN: 00249831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/macr.1996.48.175.117     Document Type: Article

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