Abstract
Concrete is a man-made material containing a particulate filler (roughly) designed on the basis of a sieve curve. For a river aggregate, the particles are approximately spherical and smooth-textured. The particle-matrix interface is usually the weakest chain link in the mechanical system; damage evolution starts at particle-matrix interfaces, even in the so called virgin state. For direct tension, these interface cracks will be on average perpendicular to the loading direction. For compression, they will run parallel to the loading direction. A single fracture surface is formed in tension, and a series of fracture surfaces in compression. They are the result of crack concentration within a process zone, in which the engineering crack meanders around a dividing plane. This allows us to design structural models for crack development on different resolution levels. Stereological notions are employed for that purpose.
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Stroeven, P., Stroeven, M. (1999). Study of Crack Development as the Basis for Rheology of Cementitious Materials. In: Wang, R. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Rheology of Bodies with Defects. Solid Mechanics and its Applications, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46937-5_17
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