Numerical implementation of a strain energy-based fracture model for HMA materials

Road Materials and Pavement Design

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-45

  Birgisson, Bjorn ^a   Wang, Jianlin ^a   Roque, Reynaldo ^a   Sangpetngam, Boonchais ^b  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b SEATEC Group   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Crack growth; Dissipated creep strain energy; HMA materials; Viscoelastic DDM

Indexed keywords

CRACK GROWTH THRESHOLD; CREEP STRAIN; DISPLACEMENT DISCONTINUITY; DISPLACEMENT DISCONTINUITY METHOD; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; THRESHOLD CONCEPTS; VISCOELASTIC DDM;

ASPHALT PAVEMENTS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACK TIPS; FRACTURE; STRAIN ENERGY; VISCOELASTICITY;

CRACKS;

EID: 33847753839     PISSN: 14680629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/rmpd.8.7-45     Document Type: Article

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