Elasticity typically refers to a material's ability to store energy, whereas viscosity refers to a
material's tendency to dissipate it. In this review, we discuss fluids and solids for which this is …

Constitutive models for shape memory alloys have seen significant development in the last
decades. They have evolved from uniaxial, mostly empirical, relations to full-fledged …

Theoretical and experimental studies have revealed that energy dissipation and release
play an important role in the deformation and failure of coal rocks. To determine the …

A reliable prediction of structural failure is extremely important in industrial applications. The
promising phase-field model has been intensively studied in fracture simulation and been …

Mathematical modeling of the nonlinear triaxial behavior and damage of such a complex
material as concrete has been a long-standing challenge in which progress has been made …

Computational modeling of concrete poses two main types of challenges. The first is the
mathematical description of local response for such a heterogeneous material under all …

Abstract At RWTH Aachen University recently, a pavilion was constructed with a roof shell
made of textile‐reinforced concrete (TRC), a composite material consisting of a fine‐grained …

Mathematical modeling of fatigue behavior of concrete under compressive loading presents
a challenging topic that attracts an increasing interest of the scientific community. The …

This paper presents a new constitutive model describing the mechanical behavior of
concrete at early age and beyond. This model, entitled solidification–microprestress …

This conference is the first in a series of conferences dedicated to Fracture Mechanics of
Concrete Structures. Due to the recent explosion of interest in research on fracture in …