In recent decades, the need for high-performance and cost-effective concrete has received
considerable attention from both researchers and different construction industries due to the …

In the failure of quasi-brittle materials such as rocks, microstuctural damage always
precedes macroscopic fracture and manifests itself in the formation of fracture process zones …

The crack-tip fracture process zone (FPZ) length with distributed cohesive stresses is
commonly modelled for quasi-brittle fracture of heterogeneous solids. This study highlights …

This paper presents a discussion on the subject of fracture energy of concrete and effective
parameters. Therefore, it serves as an overview of the available approaches in determining …

The supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) are used as a substitute for the cement to
reduce the environmental issues backed by concrete industry for the past three decades …

Disorder and long-range interactions are two of the key components that make material
failure an interesting playfield for the application of statistical mechanics. The cornerstone in …

Hoover, Bazant and colleagues have published a number of papers in recent years (Bazant
and Yu, 2009; Yu, 2010; Hoover and Bazant, 2013a, 2013b, 2014) on comparisons between …

The problems of the size effects on tensile strength and fracture energy of brittle and
disordered materials (concrete, rocks, ceramics, etc.) are reconsidered under a new and …

This study explains from the fracture mechanics principles that the common size effect
observed in fracture toughness and energy measurements of many engineering materials …

In this paper, the effect of friction on the interactions between the supports and test specimen
is investigated in the fracture tests under pure mode I, pure mode II, and pure mode III …