Strength modeling of brittle materials with two- and three-dimensional pore structures

Computational Materials Science

Volumn 16, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 98-103

  Schneider, Thomas ^a   Greil, Peter ^a   Schober, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Hebel AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerated autoclaved concrete; Finite element analysis; Porous brittle materials; Weibull theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346403280     PISSN: 09270256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0927-0256(99)00051-8     Document Type: Article

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