Concrete Fracture Models and Applications by Shailendra Kumar & Sudhirkumar V Barai

Concrete Fracture Models and Applications

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  • Genre Civil Engineering
  • Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
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  • Size 5.31 MB
  • Length 279 Pages

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Cementitious materials, rocks and fibre-reinforced composites commonly termed as quasibrittle, need a different fracture mechanics approach to model the crack propagation study because of the presence of significant size of fracture process zone ahead of the crack-tip. Recent studies show that concrete structures manifest three important stages in fracture process: crack initiation, stable crack propagation and unstable fracture or failure. Fracture Mechanics concept can better explain the above various stages including the concepts of ductility, size-effect, strain softening and post-cracking behavior of concrete and concrete structures.

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