Modelling of Energy Dissipation during Fracture of Concrete Notched Beams: Proportion of the Effective Crack and the Fracture Process Zone Consumption

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The paper presents an analysis aiming at capturing the phenomenon of quasi-brittle fracture based on the record of the fracture tests on notched specimens. A method of separation of the energy amounts released for the crack advance and that dissipated within the volume of the sizeable nonlinear zone at the crack tip – the fracture process zone– is introduced. The approach is tested on selected data of published experimental campaigns accompanied with own conducted numerical simulations.

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