Zero-Brittleness Size-Effect Method for One-Size Fracture Test of Concrete

Size Effect in Blunt Fracture: Concrete,

The fracture front in concrete, as well as rock, is blunted by a zone of microcracking, and in ductile metals by a zone of yielding. This blunting causes deviations from the structural size effect known from linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM). The size effect is studied first for concrete or rock structures, using dimensional analysis and illustrative examples. Fracture is considered to b...

Fracture Size Effect: Review of Evidence for Concrete Structures

The paper reviews experimental evidence on the size effect caused by energy release due to fracture growth during brittle failures of concrete structures. The experimental evidence has by now become quite extensive. The size effect is verified for diagonal shear failure and torsional failure of longitudinally reinforced beams without stirrups, punching shear failure of slabs, pull-out failures ...

Fatigue Fracture of High-Strength Concrete and Size Effect

Results of an cxperimelllal srudy ,,(fatiguefmelllre of geometrical/y similar high·strength concrete specimens of ven different si~es are reported and anal\'~ed. Three·poilll bend notched hean1.1 1.5. 4.24. and J:! in. deep were subjected 10 eselic loading H'ith a "m'er load limit of O.07Pc and an upper limiT het1l'een 0.73 and O.1!4 Pc. where Pc = maximum load ill monOlonic loading. The number...

Size Effect and Multiscale Fracture

We study fracture of notched samples made of quasi-brittle, polyphase materials like rock, concrete or ceramics. The fracture demonstrates the size effect during loading. This means that a full-size sample made of such a material exhibits different fracture behaviour than a laboratory-size sample. The effect is explained by the existence of an extended zone of distributed defects and cracks (pr...

State of Practice for Concrete Cylinder Match Curing and Effect of Test Cylinder Size