Bimaterial Brazilian specimen for determining interfacial fracture toughness

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-71

  Soares, Jorge B ^a   Tang, Tianxi ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Concrete; Cylindrical specimen; Fracture process zone; Fracture toughness; Interfacial fracture; Nonlinearity; Size effect

Indexed keywords

DISSIMILAR MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

INTERFACIAL FRACTURE; TEST SPECIMENS;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

CONCRETE; CRACK; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; ROCK;

BRAZILIAN TEST; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 0031902001     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(97)00088-x     Document Type: Article

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