Size independent fracture energy of concrete

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 357-361

  Vydra, Vítězslav ^a   Trtík, Karel ^a   Vodák, František ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Effective crack length; Local fracture energy; Size effect

Indexed keywords

CRACK LENGTH; CRACK MODEL; DEPTH RATIO; DIRECT IMPACT; FRACTURE PROCESS ZONE; FREE SURFACES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOCAL ENERGY; SHAPE AND SIZE; SIZE EFFECTS;

CRACKS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE ENERGY;

FRACTURE TESTING;

EID: 80052876371     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2011.06.034     Document Type: Article

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