A review on fracture propagation in concrete: Models, methods, and benchmark tests

F Mukhtar, A El-Tohfa - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2023 - Elsevier
Rigorous characterization of fracture evolution in quasi-brittle materials–such as concrete–
requires computationally intensive and, mostly, complex approaches. However, the …

Scaling in size, time and risk—The problem of huge extrapolations and remedy by asymptotic matching

ZP Bažant, HT Nguyen, AA Dönmez - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics …, 2023 - Elsevier
The scaling of structural response of concrete structures to large structure sizes, to long
service lives and to tolerable failure probabilities is a problem of order-of-magnitude …

[BOOK][B] Quasibrittle fracture mechanics and size effect: A first course

ZP Ba, JL Le, M Salviato - 2021 - books.google.com
Many modern engineering structures are composed of brittle heterogenous, or quasibrittle,
materials. These include concrete, composites, tough ceramics, rocks, cold asphalt mixtures …

A multi phase-field-cohesive zone model for laminated composites: Application to delamination migration

PKAV Kumar, A Dean, J Reinoso, M Paggi - Composite structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Failure processes in Laminated Fiber-Reinforced Composites (LFRCs) entail the
development and progression of different physical mechanisms and, in particular, the …

Critical comparison of phase-field, peridynamics, and crack band model M7 in light of gap test and classical fracture tests

ZP Bažant, HT Nguyen… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The recently conceived gap test and its simulation revealed that the fracture energy Gf (or
Kc, Jcr) of concrete, plastic-hardening metals, composites, and probably most materials can …

A discrete numerical model for the effects of crack healing on the behaviour of ordinary plain concrete: Implementation, calibration, and validation

A Cibelli, M Pathirage, G Cusatis, L Ferrara… - Engineering Fracture …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the last decade the self-healing of cracks in cementitious materials has been gaining an
increasing interest by both the concrete industry and the scientific community. Framed into …

Crack nucleation in brittle and quasi-brittle materials: A peridynamic analysis

S Niazi, Z Chen, F Bobaru - Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 2021 - Elsevier
Peridynamic (PD) models of bodies without pre-cracks, based on a single fracture parameter
(associated with the critical fracture energy), produce different strengths when different …

Lattice discrete particle model for the simulation of irregular stone masonry

M Angiolilli, M Pathirage, A Gregori… - Journal of Structural …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
This paper focuses on the simulation of irregular stone masonry by the lattice discrete
particle model (LDPM), which simulates the fracture and failure behavior of quasi-brittle …

Computational modeling of the out-of-plane behavior of unreinforced irregular masonry

M Mercuri, M Pathirage, A Gregori, G Cusatis - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
The vulnerability of stone masonry structures to seismic loading constitutes one of the main
application areas of research in the field of structural engineering. This paper focuses on the …

A smooth Crack-Band Model for anisotropic materials: Continuum theory and computations with the RKPM meshfree method

H Nguyen, J Wang, Y Bazilevs - International Journal of Solids and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract A smooth Crack Band Model (sCBM) is developed for anisotropic materials with
both high and low magnitude of anisotropy. sCBM is primarily used as a regularization …