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Inorganic Phosphate cement (IPC) is a cementitious material developed at the “Vrije Universiteit Brussel” which can be reinforced with E-glass fibres. In order to improve its application in civil engineering constructions like wall and roof panels, the constitutive behaviour of IPC should be fully understood and accurately modelled. Using a stochastic cracking theory, the averaged matrix crack distance can be calculated as a function of the applied stress. This theory is experimentally verified using a stereomicroscope equipped with a video camera and image acquisition board. It is shown that the experimentally obtained value of the average crack distance as a function the applied stress correlates quite well with the theoretically obtained value.
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Van Hemelrijck, D., Cuypers, H., Wastiels, J., Kalogiannakis, G., De Wilde, W.P. (2003). Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Matrix Cracking in Brittle Composites. In: Gdoutos, E.E., Marioli-Riga, Z.P. (eds) Recent Advances in Composite Materials. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2852-2_9
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