Influence of local fracture energy distribution on maximum fracture load of three-point-bending notched concrete beams |
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| Authors: | ST Yang XZ Hu ZM Wu |
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| Affiliation: | aDepartment of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China;bSchool of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia;cState Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China |
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| Abstract: | The maximum fracture load of a notched concrete beam has been related to the local fracture energy at the cohesive crack tip region analytically in this paper, and then the correlation between the size effects on the maximum fracture loads and the RILEM specific fracture energy is established. Two extreme conditions have been established, namely zero crack-tip bridging with zero local fracture energy and maximum crack-tip bridging with the maximum size-independent fracture energy. It is concluded that the local fracture energy at the crack tip region indeed varies with the initial crack length and the size of specimen. The tri-linear model for the local fracture energy distribution is confirmed by using the proposed simple analytical solution. |
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| Keywords: | Concrete Size effect Local fracture energy Maximum fracture load Tri-linear model |
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