Thickness effect on fracture energy of cementitious materials

Cement and Concrete Research

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 499-507

  Duan, Kai ^a   Hu, Xiao Zhi ^a   Wittmann, Folker H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c QINGDAO TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cementitious material; Fracture energy; Ligament effect; Size effect; Thickness effect

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; LIGAMENTS;

CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS;

CEMENTS;

EID: 0037399740     PISSN: 00088846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-8846(02)00997-3     Document Type: Article

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