Abstract: This paper deals with the dissipation associated with quasistatic microcracking of brittle materials exhibiting softening behavior. For this purpose an elastodamaging cohesive zone model is used, ...

Abstract: Creep of cementitious materials results from the viscoelastic behavior of the reaction products of cement and water, called hydrates. In the present paper, a single isochoric creep function characterizing well-saturated ...

Abstract: Increasing rockfall activity in the European Alps has raised the need for designing protection systems for Alpine infrastructure. This paper is concerned with protection of steel pipelines by a gravel overburden of height

Abstract: Customary micromechanics models for the poroelasticity, creep, and strength of concrete restrict the domain affected by the hydration reaction to the cement paste volume, considering the latter as a thermodynamically closed ...