Limited investigations have evaluated the effect of expanded polystyrene (EPS) beads on
the structural lightweight concrete properties. EPS offers many features compared to natural …

This contribution presents a numerical study towards the propagation and branching of
cracks in quasi-brittle materials, using a new effective rate-dependent damage model …

From a macroscopic point of view, the dynamic tensile response of concrete is mainly due to
the viscous behavior of the bulk material and inertia effects at multi-scale levels. It has been …

Although many aspects of the fracturing process of concrete are now well understood and
successfully simulated with various models, it is still very difficult to properly simulate the …

The development of realistic numerical tools to efficiently model the response of concrete
structures subjected to close-in detonations and high velocity impact has been one of the …

This study analysed the processes of damage formation and development in early age
unloaded concrete using the acoustic emission method (IADP). These are of great …

The development of realistic numerical tools to efficiently simulate the response of concrete
structures to projectile impacts or near-field explosions has been one of the major quests in …

For civil engineering structures with a tightness role, structural permeability is a key issue. In
this context, this paper presents a new proposition of a numerical modelling of leakage rate …

A new multi-scale numerical method is proposed to simulate crack propagation in reinforced
concrete structures. First of all, a three-phase composite material model is used to build the …

This paper proposes a tension‐compression damage model for concrete materials,
formulated within the framework of thermodynamics of irreversible processes. The aim of this …