Micromechanical modeling of crack-aggregate interaction in concrete materials

Cement and Concrete Composites

Volumn 21, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 349-359

  Ragab Mohamed, Ashraf ^a   Hansen, Will ^a  

^a The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFORMATION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

CRACK-AGGREGATE INTERACTION; MONOTONIC LOADING;

CONCRETE AGGREGATES;

EID: 0343081677     PISSN: 09589465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-9465(99)00016-5     Document Type: Article

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