Numerical Modeling of Concrete Cracking

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Damage and Smeared Crack Models

   • Milan Jirásek

   Pages 1-49

3. Cracking and Fracture of Concrete at Meso-level using Zero-thickness Interface Elements

   • Ignacio Carol, Andrés Idiart, Carlos López, Antonio Caballero

   Pages 51-97

4. Crack Models with Embedded Discontinuities

   • Alfredo E. Huespe, Javier Oliver

   Pages 99-159

5. Plasticity based crack models and applications

   • G. Hofstetter, C. Feist, H. Lehar, Y. Theiner, B. Valentini, B. Winkler

   Pages 161-219

6. Crack models based on the extended finite element method

   • Nicolas Moës

   Pages 221-264

7. Smeared Crack and X-FEM Models in the Context of Poromechanics

   • Günther Meschke, Stefan Grasberger, Christian Becker, Stefan Jox

   Pages 265-327

The book presents the underlying theories of the different approaches for modeling cracking of concrete and provides a critical survey of the state-of-the-art in computational concrete mechanics. It covers a broad spectrum of topics related to modeling of cracks, including continuum-based and discrete crack models, meso-scale models, advanced discretization strategies to capture evolving cracks based on the concept of finite elements with embedded discontinuities and on the extended finite element method,  and extensions to coupled problems such a hygro-mechanical problems as required in computational durability analyses of concrete structures.

• Discrete crack model
• embedded discontinuity
• extended finite element method
• poromechanics
• smeared crack model

• University of Innsbruck, Austria

  Günter Hofstetter

• Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

  Günther Meschke

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