1st Edition

Fracture Toughness and Fracture Energy: Test Methods for Concrete and Rock Proceedings of the international workshop, Sendai, 12-14 October 1988

Edited By H. Mihashi, H. Takahashi, F.H. Wittmann Copyright 1989
640 Pages
by CRC Press

The proceedings of the Workshop held at Tohoku U. in October, 1988, dealing with: structures and fracture mechanisms of aggregative materials; methods to determine and evaluate fracture toughness and energy of aggregative materials; numerical analysis of fracture; new testing methods; advanced appli

Introduction, Introductory remarks of the workshop, 1. Structure and fracture mechanisms of aggregative materials 2A. Methods to determine and to evaluate the fracture toughness 2B. Methods to determine and to evaluate the fracture toughness and the fracture energy of aggregative materials -Rock 3. Numerical analysis of fracture in aggregative materials and structures 4. Further trends of new testing methods 5. Advanced, applications.

Biography

Hirozo Mihashi, Hideaki Takahashi, Tohoku University. Folker H. Wittman, ETH-Hoenggerberg, Zurich.