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Fatigue Crack Propagation in Plain Concrete

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Fracture of Concrete and Rock

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The work in this investigation is aimed at establishing whether the empirical Paris’ Law for crack propagation in metals and rocks given by da/dN = C(ΔK)m is valid for use in crack propagation in plain concrete. Compliance and fatigue testing was carried out on single edged notched beam (SENB) specimens in 3 point bending (Mode I), and results indicate that Paris’ Law may be applicable for crack growth in plain concrete, with m being a constant and C dependent on the stress cycle ratio R.

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  1. University of Petroleum and Minerals, UPM Box 57, Dhahran, 31261, S.Arabia

    M. H. Baluch (Associate Professors in the Department of Civil Engineering) & A. K. Azad (Associate Professors in the Department of Civil Engineering)

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

    A. B. Qureshy (a graduate student)

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  1. NSF Science and Technology Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials, Northwestern University, 60208, Evanston, IL, USA

    Surendra P. Shah

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Kansas State Univeristy/Seton Hall, 66506, Manhattan, KS, USA

    Stuart E. Swartz

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Baluch, M.H., Qureshy, A.B., Azad, A.K. (1989). Fatigue Crack Propagation in Plain Concrete. In: Shah, S.P., Swartz, S.E. (eds) Fracture of Concrete and Rock. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3578-1_9

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