ACI MATERIALS JOURNAL TECHNICAL PAPER （ACI材料期刊技术论文）.pdf

ACI MATERIALS JOURNAL TECHNICAL PAPER Title no. 87-M66 Fracture Properties and Brittleness of High-Strength Concrete by Ravindra Gettu, Zden~k P. Balant, and Martha E. Karr The size-effect methodfor determining materialfracture characteris- spent in studying its mechanical properties and struc- tics, as previously proposed by Bazant and extensively verified for tural behavior .1-4,6,7,9-12 Nevertheless, many aspects, such normal strength concrete, is applied to typical high-strength con- as fracture behavior, need much more detailed in- crete. Geometrically similar three-point bending specimens are tested and the measured peak load values are used to obtain the fracture vestigation. energy, thefracture toughness, the effective length of thefracture A complicating feature in the fracture analysis of process zone, and the effective critical crack-tip opening displace- brittle heterogeneous materials such as concrete is non- ment. The brittleness of the material is shown to be objectively quan- linear behavior. This is due to the fact that the fracture tified through the size-effect method. Comparing the materialfrac- process is not concentrated at a point, the crack-tip, but tureproperties obtained with those of normal strength concrete shows that an increase of 160percent in compressive strength causes: (1) an is distributed over a zone whose size is not negligible increase offracture toughness by only about 25 percent, (2) a de- when compared to the dimensions