Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials is the first in-depth text
on the application of fracture mechanics to the analysis of failure in concrete structures. The …

Abstract Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) exhibit high tensile ductility and
multiple cracking behaviors. The weak bonding between hydrophobic fiber and matrix tends …

The tensile strength of concrete is receiving an increasing amount of attention since the
loading capacity and durability of structures are being studied more thoroughly, and since …

The objectives of this experimental investigation are to evaluate the semi-circular specimen
under three-point bending (SCB) technique for fracture testing of rocks and to determine the …

A method is described for determining the fracture toughness of plain concrete from three-
point bend specimens which accounts for the pre-peak crack growth that occurs upon …

A smeared crack model that covers tensile softening in mode I and shear softening in mode
II fracture is described. In addition, the model provides for unloading and reloading and for …

The fracture toughness testing of rocks has been receiving increasing attention in recent
years. Although a relatively young field of scientific endeavour, its rapid development …

It is necessary to study the microlevel failure mechanisms of a material in order to improve its
quality and to develop a rational constitutive model to describe the material. Nonlinearity …

It is difficult to do justice to fracture mechanics in a textbook, for the subject encompasses so
many disciplines. A general survey of the field would serve no purpose other than give a …

In this paper, the dual boundary element method is extended to include the non-linear
behaviour of cracking in concrete. The fictitious crack model is used to simulate the pure …