Size-scale and slenderness influence on the compressive strain-softening behaviour of concrete

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 441-450

  Carpinteri, A ^a   Ciola, F ^a   Pugno, N ^a   Ferrara, G ^b   Gobbi, M E ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b ENEL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boundary elements; Compression; Multi cracked finite plate; Pseudo traction method; Quasi brittle materials

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; BRITTLENESS; COMPACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; STRAIN;

PSEUDO-TRACTION METHOD;

CONCRETES;

EID: 0035388756     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.2001.00398.x     Document Type: Article

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