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Cohesive crack analysis of size effect

✍ Scribed by Gianluca Cusatis; Edward A. Schauffert

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
922 KB
Volume
76
Category
Article
ISSN
0013-7944

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✦ Synopsis

This paper deals with the analysis of size effect in concrete. An extensive campaign of accurate numerical simulations, based on the cohesive crack model, is performed to compute the size effect curves (CSEC) for typical test configurations. The results are analyzed with reference to the classical Baz Λ‡ant's size effect law (SEL) to investigate the relationship between CSEC and SEL. This analysis shows that as specimen size tends to infinity, the SEL represents the asymptote of the CSEC, and that the SEL parameter known as the effective fracture process zone length is a material property which can be expressed as a function of the cohesive crack law (CCL) parameters. Finally, the practical implications of this study are discussed in relation to the use of the CSEC or the SEL for the identification of the CCL parameters through the size effect method.

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