Meso-mechanical analysis of the fracture of concrete specimens in mixed mode

Abstract:

This paper describes recent numerical simulation results of some experiments carried out by Nooru-Mohamed to study mixed mode fracture of concrete. The numerical simulation is based on a meso-mechanical model developed in the group of Mechanics of Materials UPC, which represents the largest aggregate particles explicitly, and represent cracks in a discrete manner by inserting zero-tickness interface elements in all potential crack trajectories a priori of the analysis. © CIMNE.

Año de publicación:

2009

Keywords:

• Interface elements
• Finite Element Method
• Mixed mode of fracture in concrete
• Meso-mechanics

Fuente:

scopus