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ˇ Zdenek P. Bažant McCormick School Professor and W.P. Murphy Professor Fellow ASME Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, CEE/A135, Evanston, IL 60208 Size Effect on Strength of e-mail: z-bazant@northwestern.edu Yong Zhou1 Laminate-Foam Sandwich Plates Graduate Research Assistant Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Experiments on size effect on the failure loads of sandwich beams with PVC foam core Northwestern University, and skins made of fiber-polymer composite are reported. Two test series use beams with Evanston, IL 60208 notches at the ends cut in the foam near the top or bottom interface, and the third series uses beams without notches. The results demonstrate that there is a significant nonstatis- Isaac M. Daniel tical (energetic) size effect on the nominal strength of the beams, whether notched or W.P. Murphy Professor unnotched. The observed size effect shows that the failure loads can be realistically Fellow ASME predicted on the basis of neither the material strength concept nor linear elastic fracture Department of Civil and Environmental mechanics (LEFM). It follows that nonlinear cohesive (quasi-brittle) fracture mechanics, Engineering, or its app