Fracture and size effect in concrete and other quasibrittle materials. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Zdenek P. Bažant.
• Authors: Bažant, Z. P
• Contents: Why Fracture Mechanics?; Historical Perspective; Reasons for Fracture Mechanics Approach; Sources of Size Effect on Structural Strength; Quantification of Fracture Mechanics Size Effect; Experimental Evidence for Size Effect; Essentials of LEFM; Energy Release Rate and Fracture Energy; LEFM and Stress Intensity Factor; Size Effect in Plasticity and in LEFM; Determination of LEFM Parameters; Setting Up Solutions from Closed-Form Expressions; Approximate Energy-Based Methods; Numerical and Experimental Procedures to Obtain KI and G; Experimental Determination of KIc and Gf; Calculation of Displacements from KI-Expressions; Advanced Aspects of LEFM; Complex Variable Formulation of Plane Elasticity Problems; Plane Crack Problems and Westergaard's Stress Function; The General Near Tip Fields; Path-Independent Contour Integrals; Mixed Mode Fracture Criteria; Equivalent Elastic Cracks and R-Curves; Variability of Apparent Fracture Toughness for Concrete; Types of Fracture Behavior and Nonlinear Zone; The Equivalent Elastic Crack Concept; Fracture Toughness Determination Based on Equivalent Crack Concepts; Two Parameter Model of Jenq and Shah; R-Curves; Stability Analysis in the R-Curve Approach; Determination of Fracture Properties from Size Effect; Size Effect in Equivalent Elastic Crack Approximations; Size Effect Law in Relation to Fracture Characteristics; Size Effect Method: Detailed Experimental Procedures; Determination of R-Curve from Size Effect; Cohesive Crack Models; Basic Concepts in Cohesive Crack Model; Cohesive Crack Models Applied to Concrete; Experimental Determination of Cohesive Crack Properties; Pseudo-Boundary-Integral Methods for Mode I Crack Growth; Boundary-Integral Methods for Mode I Crack Growth; Crack Band Models and Smeared Cracking; Strain Localization in the Series Coupling Model; Localization of Strain in a Softening Bar; Basic Concepts in Crack Band Model
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 620.130426; Concrete -- Fracture; Fracture mechanics; Elastic analysis (Engineering)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351447287
• Related ISBNs: 9781351447294; 9781351447270; 9780203756799
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