Abstract: A material model for the fracturing behavior for braided composites is developed and implemented in a material subroutine for use in the commercial explicit finite element code ABAQUS . The ...

Abstract: Recent disagreements on the mathematical modeling of fracture and size effect in concrete and other quasi-brittle materials are obstacles to improvements in design practice, and especially in design codes for concrete ...

Abstract: This paper studies the chemo-mechanics of cement beams containing polypropylene (PP) functionalized using ultraviolet (UV) irradiation. It is hypothesized that UV irradiation enhances the load transfer at the interface of ...