Cohesive crack, size effect, crack band and work-of-fracture models compared to comprehensive concrete fracture tests

The simplest form of a sufficiently realistic description of the fracture of concrete as well as some other quasibrittle materials is a bilinear softening stress-separation law (or an analogous bilinear law for a crack band). This law is characterized by four independent material parameters: the ten...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bažant, Zdeněk P., Hoover, Christian G
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107967
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4814-1665