Author | : Z.P. Bazant |
File Size | : 51,7 Mb |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 14 January 2004 |
ISBN | : 0203223756 |
Pages | : 672 pages |
Fracture and Damage in Quasibrittle Structures by Z.P. Bazant Book PDF Summary
Understanding of failure of quasibrittle materials is of paramount importance in many engineering fields. This subject has become a broad and important field of considerable mathematical complexity, with many competing models and unsolved problems. Attention in this volume focuses on concrete, rock, masonry, toughened ceramics, ice and other quasibrittle materials characterized by the development of large zones of cracking or other microstructural damage, and its localization into major fractures.