The limited understanding of the fatigue behavior of reinforced and prestressed concrete
members is one of the reasons why many structures do not reach their expected service life …

Punching failures of reinforced concrete flat slabs and footings without shear reinforcement
have been responsible for a number of catastrophic collapses. Despite intense scientific …

The establishment of a simple engineering rule for predicting the fatigue failure of concrete
has been pursued over the past decades. An energetic approach to the matter seems to be …

Civil engineering structures are exposed to complex loading scenarios leading to multiaxial
fracture and activation of stress transfer mechanisms along cracks controlled by combined …

This paper aims to fill the gap in multi-axial fatigue characterization of concrete by
presenting a comprehensive numerical analysis of data from the punch-through shear test …

Reinforced concrete (RC) infrastructure typically endures repeated subcritical loading
throughout its operational lifespan, potentially compromising structural integrity. A realistic …

Fatigue of plain concrete has been extensively researched for many years. Traditionally,
investigations have focused mainly on compressive or tensile loading and little attention has …

The fatigue behavior of concrete has been usually investigated experimentally for loading
scenarios with constant amplitudes. However, in reality, concrete components and structures …

Modern high‐performance concretes with ever‐higher compressive strengths allow the
construction of slender structures which are exposed to higher fatigue‐relevant loads …

A new composite column system using a solid core and an encasing jacket made from (ultra‐
) high‐strength structural steel filled with concrete is presented in this paper that can serve …