Fracture and Damage of Concrete and Rock - FDCR-2

Fracture and Damage of Concrete and Rock - FDCR-2
Author: H.P. Rossmanith
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 712
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780203474594

This book forms the Proceedings of the International Conference held in Vienna in November 1992 dealing with ageing, fatigue and fracture of concrete and concrete structures. Special sections cover demolition and recycling, and anchorage engineering. As well as selected international contributions, five specially invited plenary papers are included from Austria, Spain, Japan, Denmark and Sweden.

Fracture of Brittle Disordered Materials: Concrete, Rock and Ceramics

Fracture of Brittle Disordered Materials: Concrete, Rock and Ceramics
Author: G. Baker
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2004-01-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0203223454

This book derives from the invited IUTAM Symposium in September 1993. The contributions discuss recent advances in fracture mechanics studies of concrete, rock, ceramics and other brittle disordered materials at micro and structural levels. It draws together research and new applications in continuum, damage and fracture mechanics approaches.

Fracture and Damage in Quasibrittle Structures

Fracture and Damage in Quasibrittle Structures
Author: Z.P. Bazant
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2004-01-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780203223758

Understanding of failure of quasibrittle materials is of paramount importance in many engineering fields. This subject has become a broad and important field of considerable mathematical complexity, with many competing models and unsolved problems. Attention in this volume focuses on concrete, rock, masonry, toughened ceramics, ice and other quasibrittle materials characterized by the development of large zones of cracking or other microstructural damage, and its localization into major fractures.

Concrete Fracture

Concrete Fracture
Author: Jan G.M. van Mier
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1466554711

The study of fracture mechanics of concrete has developed in recent years to the point where it can be used for assessing the durability of concrete structures and for the development of new concrete materials. The last decade has seen a gradual shift of interest toward fracture studies at increasingly smaller sizes and scales. Concrete Fracture: A

Fracture Processes of Concrete

Fracture Processes of Concrete
Author: Jan G.M. van Mier
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2017-07-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351447238

Despite tremendous advances made in fracture mechanics of concrete in recent years, very little information has been available on the nature of fracture processes and on reliable test methods for determining parameters for the different models. Moreover, most texts on this topic discuss numerical modeling but fail to consider experimentation. This book fills these gaps and synthesizes progress in the field in a simple, straightforward manner geared to practical applications.

High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cement Composites 2

High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cement Composites 2
Author: A.E. Naaman
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2004-03-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1482271672

The leading international authorities bring together in this contributed volume the latest research and current thinking on advanced fiber reinforced cement composites. Under rigorous editorial control, 13 chapters map out the key properties and behaviour of these materials, which promise to extend their applications into many more areas in the com

Continuum Damage Mechanics and Numerical Applications

Continuum Damage Mechanics and Numerical Applications
Author: Wohua Zhang
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 937
Release: 2010-11-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642047084

"Continuum Damage Mechanics and Numerical Applications" presents a systematic development of the theory of Continuum Damage Mechanics and its numerical engineering applications using a unified form of the mathematical formulations in anisotropic and isotropic damage models. The theoretical framework is based on the thermodynamic theory of energy and material dissipation and is described by a set of fundamental formulations of constitutive equations of damaged materials, development equations of the damaged state, and evolution equations of micro-structures. According to concepts of damage-dissipation of the material state and effective evolution of material properties, all these advanced equations, which take nonsymmetrized effects of damage aspects into account, are developed and modified from the traditional general failure models so they are more easily applied and verified in a wide range of engineering practices by experimental testing. Dr. Wohua Zhang is a Professor at Engineering Mechanics Research Center in Zhejiang University of China. Dr. Yuanqiang Cai is a Professor at Department of Civil Engineering in Zhejiang University of China.

Mechanics of Geomaterial Interfaces

Mechanics of Geomaterial Interfaces
Author: A.P.S. Selvadurai
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 569
Release: 1995-01-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080544878

The subject of geomaterial interfaces recognizes the important influences of the interface behaviour on the performance of interfaces involving cementaceous materials such as concrete and steel, ice-structure interfaces, concrete-rock interfaces and interfaces encountered in soil reinforcement. During the past two decades, the subject of geomaterial interfaces has attracted the concerted attention of scientists and engineers both in geomechanics and applied mechanics. These efforts have been largely due to the observation that the conventional idealizations of the behaviour of interfaces between materials by frictionless contact, bonded contact, Coulomb friction or finite friction tend to omit many interesting and important influences of special relevance to geomaterials. The significant manner in which non-linear effects, dilatancy, contact degradation, hardening and softening, etc., can influence the behaviour of the interface is borne out by experimental evidence. As a result, in many instances, the response of the interface can be the governing criterion in the performance of a geomechanics problem.The primary objective of this volume is to provide a documentation of recent advances in the area of geomaterial interfaces. The volume consists of subject groupings which cover ice-structure, soil-structure and steel-concrete interfaces, mechanics of rock and concrete joints and interfaces in discrete systems.