Cohesive crack model description of ductile to brittle size-scale transition: Dimensional analysis vs. renormalization group theory

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 70, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1809-1839

  Carpinteri, A ^a   Cornetti, P ^a   Barpi, F ^a   Valente, S ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cohesive crack; Concrete; Fractal geometry; Size effect

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; CONCRETES; CRACKS; DUCTILITY; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING;

COHESIVE CRACK MODEL;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

CONCRETE; CONCRETE STRUCTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0038604259     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(03)00126-7     Document Type: Article

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