From criticality to final collapse: Evolution of the "b-value" from 1.5 to 1.0

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 843-853

  Carpinteri, Alberto ^a   Lacidogna, Giuseppe ^a   Puzzi, Simone ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CRACKS; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); FRACTURE MECHANICS; OUTAGES; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION SIGNAL; ACOUSTIC EMISSION TECHNIQUES; FRACTURE AND DAMAGES; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS; RENORMALIZATION GROUP; STATISTICAL INTERPRETATION; STRENGTH AND TOUGHNESS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING;

EID: 67349140946     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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