Scaling laws and multiscale approach in the mechanics of heterogeneous and disordered materials

Applied Mechanics Reviews

Volumn 59, Issue 1-6, 2006, Pages 283-304

  Carpinteri, Alberto ^a   Cornetti, Pletro ^a   Puzzi, Simone ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CRACK INITIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

COHESIVE CRACK MODEL; DISORDERED MATERIALS; FRACTIONAL CALCULUS; SCALING LAWS;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 33846365256     PISSN: 00036900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2204076     Document Type: Review

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