Scaling behaviour and dual renormalization of experimental tensile softening responses

Materials and Structures/Materiaux et Constructions

Volumn 31, Issue 209, 1996, Pages 303-309

  Carpinteri, Alberto ^a,b,c   Ferro, Giuseppe ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b RILEM ^*

^c Edit Croup RILEM Tech Comm

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

TENSILE SOFTENING;

TENSILE TESTING;

EID: 0032098838     PISSN: 13595997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02480671     Document Type: Article

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