Size-Scale Effects in the Failure Mechanisms of Materials and Structures

Content: Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyrights Page
 Contents
 Preface
 Scientific Committee
 Official picture of the Symposium
 Part One: Renormalization And Scaling Laws
 Chapter 1: Strength and toughness in disordered materials: complete and incomplete similarity
 Chapter 2: A renormalization technique in the study of concrete elements of increasing size
 Chapter 3: Comparison of lattice type fracture models for concrete under biaxial loading regimes
 Chapter 4: Examples of fractals in rock mechanics
 Chapter 5: Damage incurred during the polymerization of thermosets Part Two: Fractality And Self-SimilarityChapter 6: Roughness and fracture toughness of cement-based matrices
 Chapter 7: Tortuosity of crack path, fracture toughness and scale effect in brittle fracture
 Chapter 8: On the relation between fracture surface characteristics and material properties
 Chapter 9: The roughness of fracture surfaces: relevant lengthscales and fracture toughness
 Chapter 10: Strain localization and crack dispersion on concrete beams in bending
 Part Three: Disorder And Statistics
 Chapter 11: Representativeness of laboratory strength testing Chapter 12: Interface fracture energy and aggregate size effects in particulate solidsChapter 13: On the influence of local disorder on size-effect
 Chapter 14: A probabilistic discrete cracking model of concrete in tension and compression
 Chapter 15: Dimensional effect in electrical breakdown of insulating materials and structures
 Part Four: Continuum Models
 Chapter 16: Higher order gradients and size effects
 Chapter 17: Stochastic approaches for damage evolution in local and non-local continua Chapter 18: A continuum thermodynamics approach for size effects in the failure of concrete-type materials and structuresChapter 19: Scaling of cohesive fracture (with ramification to fractal cracks)
 Chapter 20: Size effect in concrete and reinforced concrete structures
 Part Five: Discrete Models
 Chapter 21: Prediction of size-effect based on cohesive crack models
 Chapter 22: Physical causes for size effect in concrete structures
 Chapter 23: Critical dimensions for scaling effects in the fracture of quasi-brittle materials Chapter 24: Analytical model for fictitious crack propagation in reinforced concrete beams without debondingChapter 25: Scale effects in the cohesive process zone and structural response
 Part Six: Quasi-Brittle Materials
 Chapter 26: Size effect study in three fracture test specimens
 Chapter 27: Fracture mechanics properties and size effect in concrete
 Chapter 28: Fracture energy of concrete --
Nonstandard evaluation
 Chapter 29: Size-effect sensitivity --
Three point bending test versus wedge splitting test
 Chapter 30: Size-scale effects in the failure of brittle materials and