FraMCoS 12
Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures
Key Papers
An approach for a novel multiscale partitioned framework for predicting collapse of buildings under fire loads
The structural integrity and load-bearing capacity of burning buildings can be signifi- cantly reduced due to high thermal load. This causes a problem for e.g. rescue workers, as they have to ensur...
Sprain energy and gap test consequences for damage localization and fracture mechanics
The smooth Crack Band Model (sCBM), conceived in 2021, incorporated a novel local- ization limiter that is imposed on the ’sprain’ field, representing the second-gradient of displacement, to preven...
High-performance reinforced concrete structures: brittleness size-scale effects
The present paper deals with the brittle behaviours of high-performance reinforced concrete beams for rather low or high reinforcement percentages. In the former case, the loading drop is due to te...
Fracture investigation in heterogeneous porous materials across scales
Heterogeneous porous materials, characterized by variations in porosity and pore distribu- tion, exhibit complexmechanicalbehavior,particularlywhensubjectedtofracture. Here,wepresenta numerical met...
Lattice and continuum damage modeling for fracture of concrete
Lattice modelling of quasi-brittle materials such as concrete is a discrete, meso-scale, description of the material in which constitutive relations are prescribed at a lower scale compared to thes...
