An extended (fractal) Overlapping Crack Model to describe crushing size-scale effects in compression

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2530-2540

  Carpinteri, Alberto ^a   Corrado, Mauro ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cohesive Crack Model; Concrete; Fractals; Overlapping Crack Model; Size scale effects

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE DISTRIBUTION; COHESIVE CRACK MODEL; COHESIVE CRACKS; COMPRESSION TESTS; CRACK MODEL; DISSIPATED ENERGY; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; FRACTAL SETS; HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; OVERLAPPING CRACK MODEL; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; POST-PEAK SOFTENING; QUASIBRITTLE MATERIAL; SCALE DEPENDENCE; SELF-SIMILAR; SIZE EFFECTS; SIZE-SCALE EFFECTS; STRAIN LOCALIZATIONS; STRESS AND STRAIN; STRESS-STRAIN RESPONSE; TENSILE BEHAVIOUR; TENSION AND COMPRESSION; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION TESTS;

COMPRESSION TESTING; CONCRETES; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELASTICITY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRACTALS; FRACTURE;

CRACKS;

EID: 69249227409     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2009.04.024     Document Type: Article

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