Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials

A text on the application of fracture mechanics to the analysis of failure in concrete structures. It synthesizes a number of research results to provide a treatment of the topic. It presents a discussion of the theory of size effect and scaling of failure loads in structures, compiling results on the quasibrittle size effect. The treament of every subject here proceeds from simple to complex, from specialized to general, and uses a simple level of mathematics.