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 basic theory of damage mechanics was introduced to deal with the deformation of strain
softening for rocks. In this theory, a statistical method was used to describe rock properties …

Frictional sliding and crack growth are two main dissipation processes in quasi brittle
materials. The frictional sliding along closed cracks is the origin of macroscopic plastic …

A new microcrack-based continuous damage model is developed to describe the behavior
of brittle geomaterials under compression dominated stress fields. The induced damage is …

Inelastic deformation and damage evolution at microdefects are two essential nonlinear
mechanisms that govern macroscopic mechanical behaviors of quasi-brittle solids. The …

With regards to the composition of natural rocks including voids or pores, deformation
behavior is strongly affected by variation in porosity. By using a statistical damage-based …

Growth of oriented microcracks in brittle rocks induces not only the degradation of
mechanical properties, but also the modification of hydraulic–mechanical coupling …

Constitutive models play an essential role in numerical modeling and simulation of
nonlinear deformation, progressive damage and failure of rock-like materials and structures …

This paper deals with numerical modelling of induced damage in three granites. A
continuous anisotropic damage model is proposed in the framework of thermodynamics and …

A novel progressive damage and failure model for fiber reinforced laminated composites is
presented in this work. The model uses the thermodynamically based Schapery Theory (ST) …