Concrete fracture models: Testing and practice

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 165-205

  Bažant, Zdeněk P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concrete; Design practice; Fracture; Fracture characteristics; Fracture process zone; Quasibrittle materials; Rock; Scaling; Size effect; Testing methods

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE PRODUCTS; CRACKS; ELASTICITY; FRACTURE TESTING; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SAFETY FACTOR; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COHESIVE CRACK MODELS; FRACTURE ENERGY;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

CONCRETE; FRACTURE;

EID: 0035930828     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(01)00084-4     Document Type: Article

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