Simulation of fracture in a quasi-brittle material in direct tension-a lattice model

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 61, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 445-460

  Raghuprasad, B K ^a   Bhat, D N ^a   Bhattacharya, G S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Concrete; Lattice model; Singular fractal functions; Size effects; Tension softening

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCRETES; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); DEFORMATION; FRACTALS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

LATTICE MODEL; SINGULAR FRACTAL FUNCTIONS; TENSION SOFTENING;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 0032172793     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(98)00058-7     Document Type: Article

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