Wedge splitting test on fracture behaviour of fiber reinforced and regular high performance concretes

13th International Conference on Fracture 2013, ICF 2013

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 634-643

  Hodicky, Kamil ^a   Hulin, Thomas ^a   Schmidt, Jacob W ^a   Stang, Henrik ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fictitious crack model; High Performance Concrete; Inverse Analysis; Wedge Splitting Test

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; FRACTURE ENERGY; HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CRACK OPENING DISPLACEMENTS; FICTITIOUS CRACK MODEL; FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR; FRACTURE MECHANICS PARAMETERS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SOFTENING CURVES; WEDGE SPLITTING TESTS;

CRACKS;

EID: 84898800715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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