Is the cause of size effect on structural strength fractal or energetic-statistical?

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-31

  Bažant, Zdeněk P ^a   Yavari, Arash ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

DESIGN CODECS; ROCK MASSES; STRUCTURAL STRENGTH;

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION;

SCALE EFFECT; STRUCTURE;

EID: 10144258705     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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