Assessment of the tensile strength through size effect curves

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 65, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 189-207

  Guinea, G V ^a   Elices, M ^a   Planas, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cohesive crack model; Linear softening; Softening curve; Tensile strength; Trapezoidal softening

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC LOADS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCRACKS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

BRAZILIAN SPLITTING TESTS; COHESIVE MATERIAL; LINEAR SOFTENING; SIZE EFFECT CURVES; SOFTENING CURVE; TRAPEZOIDAL SOFTENING;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0033906060     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(99)00115-0     Document Type: Article

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