Identification of concrete fracture parameters through size effect experiments

Cement and Concrete Composites

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 788-797

  Cedolin, Luigi ^a   Cusatis, Gianluca ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohesive crack law; Concrete; Experiments; Fracture energy; Mode I fracture; Parameter identification; Size effect; Tensile strength

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; POLYNOMIALS; SIZE DETERMINATION; SPEED; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

CLASSICAL APPROACHES; COHESIVE CRACK LAW; COHESIVE CRACKS; CONCRETE; CONCRETE FRACTURE; DIFFERENT SIZES; ELASTIC FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE ENERGY; FRACTURE PARAMETERS; INDIRECT METHODS; MODE I FRACTURE; PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION; POLYNOMIAL INTERPOLATION; POST-PEAK; SIZE EFFECT; SIZE EFFECT LAW; SIZE EFFECTS; SPECIMEN GEOMETRY; STRUCTURAL SIZES; STRUCTURAL STRENGTH; TENSILE STRENGTH;

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 49949092687     PISSN: 09589465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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