Fracture of Brittle Disordered Materials: Concrete, Rock and Ceramics

Edited by G. Baker, B.L. Karihaloo

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Table of Contents

Preface. Introduction. Keynote paper: the scaling laws and renormalization group in the mechanics and micromechanics of fracture. Fracture in brittle matrix composites. Fracture mechanics of concrete. Fracture mechanics of rock. Fracture mechanics of ceramics. Continuum models. Discrete crack models. Micromechanisms and micromechanical models. Damage, localisation and size effect. Applications of fracture mechanics. Author index. Subject index.
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