Fatigue cracking of polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 226-233

  Tawfiq, Kamal ^a   Armaghani, Jamshid ^a   Ruiz, Rodolfo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cracking (fracturing); Fatigue (materials); Fiber reinforced concrete

Indexed keywords

CONCRETES; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEATION; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSILE TESTING;

FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE; LABORATORY TESTING;

POLYPROPYLENES;

EID: 0033102962     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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