FMC 1 Determination of the fracture energy of mortar and concrete by means of three-point bend tests on notched beams
About: This article is published in Materials and Structures.The article was published on 1985-01-01. It has received 801 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mortar & Fracture mechanics.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the existing fracture models for concrete and the testing methods for fracture energy and other fracture characteristics and some new results on the relationship between fracture testing and size effect are presented.
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TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the sum of the dimensional decrement (for material ligament) and the dimensional increment (for fracture surface) must be lower than unity.
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TL;DR: The characteristic length of a heterogeneous brittle material such as concrete represents a material property that governs the minimum possible width of a zone of strain softening damage in nonlocal areas as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The characteristic length of a heterogeneous brittle material such as concrete represents a material property that governs the minimum possible width of a zone of strainsoftening damage in nonlocal...
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TL;DR: In this article, the fracture energy of concrete, as well as other fracture parameters such as the effective length of the fracture process zone, critical crack-tip opening displacement and the fracture toughness, can be approximately predicted from the standard compression strength, maximum aggregate size, water-cement ratio, and aggregate type (river or crushed).
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TL;DR: In this paper, the problem of the size effects on tensile strength and fracture energy of brittle and disordered materials (concrete, rocks, ceramics, etc.) is reconsidered under a new and unifying light cast on by fractal geometry.
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