Fracture process zone in concrete beams: Experimental investigation and numerical modeling

Society for Experimental Mechanics - SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics 2009

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 645-655

  Hadjab, Hadda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE BEAM; DESTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FICTITIOUS CRACK MODEL; FRACTURE PROCESS ZONE; NUMERICAL MODELING; PROCESSING STAGE; QUASIBRITTLE MATERIAL; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; BUILDING MATERIALS; CONCRETE PRODUCTS; CRACKS;

MECHANICS;

EID: 73349105635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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