Size effect on specific fracture energy of concrete

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 87-96

  Duan, Kai ^a   Hu, Xiaozhi ^a   Wittmann, Folker H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Aedificat Institute Freburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary effect; Fracture energy; Fracture process zone; Local fracture energy; Size effect

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BOUNDARY EFFECT MODEL; FRACTURE ENERGY; SIZE EFFECT;

CONCRETES;

CONCRETES; CRACKS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 33748753675     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2006.01.031     Document Type: Article

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