On the relationship between ceramic strength and the requirements for mechanical design

R Danzer - Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 2014 - Elsevier
During the last fifty years the mechanical properties of ceramic materials have been greatly
improved, their toughness and strength have been increased and the scatter of strength …

[图书][B] Creep and hygrothermal effects in concrete structures

ZP Bažant, M Jirásek - 2018 - Springer
The literature on concrete creep and shrinkage is vast and scattered over many media. A
host of books have already been devoted to this subject. Some are valuable compilations of …

Scaling in size, time and risk—The problem of huge extrapolations and remedy by asymptotic matching

ZP Bažant, HT Nguyen, AA Dönmez - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics …, 2023 - Elsevier
The scaling of structural response of concrete structures to large structure sizes, to long
service lives and to tolerable failure probabilities is a problem of order-of-magnitude …

[图书][B] Probabilistic mechanics of quasibrittle structures: strength, lifetime, and size effect

ZP Bazant, JL Le - 2017 - books.google.com
Quasibrittle (or brittle heterogeneous) materials are becoming increasingly important for
modern engineering. They include concretes, rocks, fiber composites, tough ceramics, sea …

Unified nano-mechanics based probabilistic theory of quasibrittle and brittle structures: I. Strength, static crack growth, lifetime and scaling

JL Le, ZP Bažant, MZ Bazant - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Engineering structures must be designed for an extremely low failure probability such as
10− 6, which is beyond the means of direct verification by histogram testing. This is not a …

Theory of cyclic creep of concrete based on Paris law for fatigue growth of subcritical microcracks

ZP Bazant, MH Hubler - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2014 - Elsevier
Recent investigations prompted by a disaster in Palau revealed that worldwide there are 69
long-span segmental prestressed-concrete box-girder bridges that suffered excessive multi …

Unified nano-mechanics based probabilistic theory of quasibrittle and brittle structures: II. Fatigue crack growth, lifetime and scaling

JL Le, ZP Bažant - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper extends the theoretical framework presented in the preceding Part I to the lifetime
distribution of quasibrittle structures failing at the fracture of one representative volume …

Asymptotically matched extrapolation of fishnet failure probability to continuum scale

H Xu, J Vievering, HT Nguyen, Y Zhang, JL Le… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Elsevier
Motivated by the extraordinary strength of nacre, which exceeds the strength of its fragile
constituents by an order of magnitude, the fishnet statistics became in 2017 the only …

Long-term performance of prestressed concrete bridges under the intertwined effects of concrete damage, static creep and traffic-induced cyclic creep

T Tong, Z Liu, J Zhang, Q Yu - Engineering Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
The current progress towards sustainable transportation demands for a prolonged lifespan,
ie, over 100 years, for large-span bridges. To accomplish this goal, realistic prediction of the …

Design of quasibrittle materials and structures to optimize strength and scaling at probability tail: an apercu

ZP Bažant - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The objective in materials or structure design has been to maximize the mean strength.
However, as generally agreed, engineering structures, such as bridges, aircraft or …