Concrete fracture prediction using bilinear softening

Cement and Concrete Composites

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 300-312

  Roesler, Jeffrey ^a   Paulino, Glaucio H ^a   Park, Kyoungsoo ^a   Gaedicke, Cristian ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesive zone model; Concrete; Fracture energy; Size effect; Two parameter fracture model

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

COHESIVE ZONE MODEL; SIZE EFFECT; TWO-PARAMETER FRACTURE MODEL;

CONCRETES;

EID: 33947188154     PISSN: 09589465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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