Founding Documents

Preface to the FraMCoS-2 proceedings by F.H. Wittmann. FRAMCOS‑2 Conference Programme  PREFACE  Thirty ye訂sago， fracture mechanics was considered to be a highly interesting academic  subject without any relevance for designthe  ， construction， and maintenance of concrete  旬res.Few and isolated groups worked in  field this and they met on the occasion of  struc Il established intemational conferences on企acturemechanics such as ICF. In these big  we conferences ， usually one or two sessions were devoted to concrete.  ， engineers who at that time had no idea of what丘acturemechanics really  Suddenly implies got fas cInated by this approach and the view was spread that civil engineering  would experience a real revolution with the introduction of fracture mechanics into  加 ct町alanalysis. These expectations certainly could not and will never be satisfied. But  s in this situation ， RILEM took a lead and set up a first technical committee on frac印re ・FMC).The aim originally was to present a comprehensive  mechanics (RILEM TC 50 documentation on the state‑of‑the‑art (Fracture Mechanics of Concrete ， ed. F.H.  Wittmann ， Elsevier (1983)) and to prep訂erecommendations on a generally accepted test  町ameters.No doubt， practically everybody  method to determine fracture mechanics p expected a standardized method on how to determine KIC of concrete when this  立1itteewas set up.  com ， held in Delft，  It was during the first meeting of the new RILEM technical committee The Nether1ands， when Arne Hi1lerborg asked to present his ideas on frac旬remechanics  in 15 minutes.

Preface to the FraMCoS-1 proceedings by Z.P. Bazant. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Fracture Mechanics of  Concrete Structures (FraMCoS1)held at Beaver Run Resort，Breekenridge，  Colorado， USA， 1‑5 June 1992  Edited by  organized by  ZDENEK P. BAZANT  Wαlter P. Murphy Professor ofCivil Engineering，  Northwestern University  Northwestern University， Evαnston， lllinois， USA  in collaboration with the  NSF Science and Technology Center for  Advanced Cement‑Based Materials (ACBM)  ~ and the  ACI Committee 446 on Fracture Mechanics  under the auspices of the  International Association for  Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)  andthe  American Concrete Institute (ACI)  and sponsored by the  US National Science Foundation (NSF)  1991  ELSEVIER APPLIED SCIENCE  LONDON and NEW YORK  V11  Vlll  C吋0Jin，J. Mazars， J. Planぉ，KWillam， B.1. G. Ban， R. de Borst， V. E. Saouma， J. van Mier，組do血巴rs.We  talkeda加utit 鉱山eintemational workshop 00∞nαete fractur巴heldin Locamo， Switrerl組d，in September， 1安調。 (or伊国dby wi伽 annand Dun例制白血 tematio叫 workshop00∞ocrete fra出Jreheld in Torino in  October 1991 (h倒 edbyA.C均出出).As a r叫 tof our也ω血onsat曲師 mostchanning 1ωations，配 detailed∞oceptαystallired.  Anor伊血血 gm∞出gwas called to hot巴IOranjein N∞，rdwijk， Ne白erl組也 where it was held 00 June  .19;1991，d町並ga∞nferenαorgan出dby J. van Mier. The Intemational Association of Fracture M巴chanicsof  Coocrete S凶伽巴 S似 ‑FraMω)was created by unanimo凶∞間山 ofthe members of出eIntematiooal  PREFACE