Constitutive models for shape memory alloys have seen significant development in the last
decades. They have evolved from uniaxial, mostly empirical, relations to full-fledged …

Modeling of the evolution of distributed damage such as microcracking, void formation, and
softening frictional slip necessitates strain-softening constitutive models. The nonlocal …

Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials is the first in-depth text
on the application of fracture mechanics to the analysis of failure in concrete structures. The …

A simple but general model for normal/shear cracking in quasi-brittle materials is presented.
It is defined in terms of the normal and shear stresses on the average plane of the crack and …

An overview of computational methods to model fracture in brittle and quasi‐brittle materials
is given. The overview focuses on continuum models for fracture. First, numerical difficulties …

A recently developed FE-based mesostructural model for the mechanical behavior of
heterogeneous quasi-brittle materials is used systematically to analyze concrete specimens …

This paper describes an approach for the 3D meso-structural analysis of concrete
specimens, which extends the previous work developed in 2D within the same research …

The recently emerged idea of enriching standard finite element interpolations by strain or
displacement discontinuities has triggered the development of powerful techniques that …

The advantages and disadvantages of implicit and explicit representations of strong
discontinuities such as cracks are examined, with an emphasis on elements with embedded …

Aggregates in cementitious composites subject to drying lead to mechanical restraint of the
matrix shrinkage, which under certain conditions may lead to internal microcracking. In the …