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The concrete mix with material properties: ν = 0.18, f t = 3.21 MPa, E = 30 GPa, and G F == 103 N/m along with nonlinear stress-displacement softening relation with c1 = 3 and c 2 = 7 are used as the input parameters of FCM.
The study of the fracture behaviour of concrete structures using the fictitious crack model requires two fracture properties of the concrete mix, namely, the size-independent specific fracture energy GF, and the corresponding tension softening relation σ(w) between the residual stress carrying capacity σ and the crack opening w in the fracture process zone ahead of a real crack.
The softening relation is implemented in an embedded discontinuity method, which is employed for the numerical simulation of three point bending experiments.
Based on the linear elastic fracture mechanics and the bilinear softening relation, the two fracture toughness of this criterion are obtained with the test results.
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