Fracture of Concrete and Rock

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Keynote Papers

   1. Fracture Toughness of Cement-Based Materials

      • Surendra P. Shah

      Pages 1-12

   2. Fracture Toughness Determination of Rocks with Core-Based Specimens

      • K. P. Chong, M. D. Kuruppu, J. S. Kuszmaul

      Pages 13-25

3. Dynamic Fracture and Load-Rate Effects

   1. Energy Balance in Instrumented Impact Tests on Plain Concrete Beams

      • N. P. Banthia, Sidney Mindess, Arnon Bentur

      Pages 26-36

   2. A Statistical Theory of Time-Dependent Fracture for Cementitious Materials

      • Xiao-Zhi Hu, Yiu-Wing Mai, Brian Cotterell

      Pages 37-46

   3. The Design Method for the Demolition of Concrete with Expansive Demolition Agents

      • Tetsuo Harada, Takashi Idemitsu, Akira Watanabe, Shun-ichi Takayama

      Pages 47-57

4. Fatigue Effects in Concrete Fracture

   1. Fatigue Rupture of Plain Concrete Analysed by Fracture Mechanics

      • Zhang Binsheng, Zhu Zhaohong, Wu Keru

      Pages 58-63

   2. Kinetics of Crack Growth in Plain Concrete

      • P. C. Perdikaris, A. M. Calomino

      Pages 64-69

   3. On the Estimating Method of Fatigue Strength of the Brittle Materials under Repeated Impulsive Bending Load

      • Y. Matsufuji, T. Ohkubo

      Pages 70-79

   4. Fatigue Crack Propagation in Plain Concrete

      • M. H. Baluch, A. B. Qureshy, A. K. Azad

      Pages 80-87

   5. Fatigue Damage of Concrete

      • A. Alliche, D. Francois

      Pages 88-95

5. Mode I and Mixed Mode Fracture

   1. Do Plain and Fibre-Reinforced Concretes have an R-Curve Behaviour?

      • B. L. Karihaloo

      Pages 96-105

   2. Fracture of Concrete at Cryogenic Temperatures

      • M. Elices, J. Planas, P. Maturana

      Pages 106-116

   3. Mixed Mode Fracture Tests on Concrete

      • H. W. Reinhardt, H. A. W. Cornelissen, D. A. Hordijk

      Pages 117-130

6. Analytical Models

   1. Numerical Simulation of Concrete Fracture Through a Bilinear Softening Stress-Crack Opening Displacement Law

      • A. Carpinteri, G. Colombo, G. Ferrara, G. Giuseppetti

      Pages 131-141

   2. Fundamental Issues of Smeared Crack Models

      • Kaspar Willam, Eddy Pramono, Stein Sture

      Pages 142-157

   3. Mathematical Modelling of Damage Evolution in Concrete and FRC-Materials

      • Henrik Stang

      Pages 158-169

   4. A Hypothesis Concerning the Effects of Macro-Porosity on Mechanical Properties of Concrete

      • Sandor Popovics

      Pages 170-174

   5. Strain-Softening Simulations of Mixed-Mode Concrete Fracture

      • J. G. Rots, G. M. A. Kusters, J. Blaauwendraad

      Pages 175-188

   6. Models of Quasi-Static and Dynamic Fluid-Driven Fracturing in Jointed Rocks

      • R. J. Shaffer, F. E. Heuze, R. K. Thorpe, A. R. Ingraffea, R. H. Nilson

      Pages 189-198

The International Conference on Fracture of Concrete and Rock was organized by the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) subdivision on Fracture of Concrete and Rock and RILEM Committee 89-FMT Fracture MechanicS of Concrete; Test Methods. The venue was Houston, Texas on June 17-19, 1987 and cooperation was provided by ACI 446, Fracture Mechanics and RILEM 90-FHA Fracture Mechanics of Concrete; Applications. The conference co-chai rmen were Professor S. P. Shah, Northwestern Uni versity and Professor S. E. Swartz, Kansas State University with the able assistance of Professor K. P. Chong, University of Wyoming. The conference theme was Fracture Mechanics Applications to Cracking and Fracture of Concrete (plain or reinforced) and Rock Subjected to Uniaxial or Complex Stress States with Static- or Dynamic-Loading Rates. This theme was chosen in recognition of parallel efforts between the rock mechanics community and researchers working in the application of fracture mechanics methods to the problem of cracking and fracture of concrete.

• ceramics
• concrete
• fracture mechanics
• mechanics
• simulation

• NSF Science and Technology Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

  Surendra P. Shah

• Department of Civil Engineering, Kansas State Univeristy/Seton Hall, Manhattan, USA

  Stuart E. Swartz

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