Discrete fracture in high performance fibre reinforced concrete materials

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2235-2245

  Denneman, Erik ^a,c   Wu, Rongzong ^a   Kearsley, Elsabe P ^b   Visser, Alex T ^b  

^a University of California Pavement Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Civil engineering structures; Concrete; Crack tip singularity; Embedded discontinuity method; Fibre reinforced materials

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES; DISCRETE FRACTURES; EMBEDDED DISCONTINUITY; EMBEDDED DISCONTINUITY METHOD; FIBRE REINFORCED CONCRETE; FIBRE REINFORCED MATERIALS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE FIBRES; LOAD-DISPLACEMENT CURVE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPENING MODE FRACTURE; SATISFACTORY PREDICTIONS; SIZE EFFECTS; THREE POINT BENDING; THREE-POINT-BENDING EXPERIMENTS; WORK OF FRACTURE;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CRACK TIPS; CRACKS; EXPERIMENTS; EXTRAPOLATION; FIBERS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE ENERGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; REINFORCED CONCRETE;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

EID: 79957638886     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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