| Preface | |
| Modelling cracking in rocks and cementitious materials | p. 3 |
| The role of microcracks and microvoids in the toughening of quasi-brittle materials | p. 34 |
| Non-local plasticity softening model for brittle materials | p. 44 |
| Micromechanics and localization in concrete and rock | p. 54 |
| Softening curves for concrete and structural response | p. 66 |
| Tension softening diagram of steel fiber reinforced concrete and size effect on the flexural strength | p. 76 |
| Apparent tensile strength and fictitious fracture energy of concrete: a fractal geometry approach to related size effects | p. 86 |
| Simulation of concrete cracking: a numerical evaluation of the rotating crack model | p. 95 |
| Environmental factors for post-tensioning materials in concrete structures | p. 107 |
| Empirical analysis of the fracture process in high strength concrete loaded in uniaxial compression | p. 122 |
| Indirect determination of the [sigma]-w relation of HSC through three-point bending | p. 135 |
| Asymptotic tip fields for a steadily growing crack in pressure-sensitive materials | p. 145 |
| Acoustic emission and source location in concrete subjected to mixed-mode loading | p. 157 |
| Mixed-mode fracture propagation: a combined numerical and experimental study | p. 166 |
| Application of fracture mechanics to the study of crack propagation in concrete structures using a granular microcracked model | p. 176 |
| Experimental crack identification of mixed-mode by acoustic emission | p. 186 |
| Multi-domain BEM implementation for mixed-mode cracking in concrete | p. 196 |
| Quantitative assessment of fracture of concrete by using BEM for inhomogeneous materials | p. 206 |
| Properties of concrete related to fatigue damage | p. 217 |
| Cyclic loading of reinforced concrete continuous beams: finite element analysis and experimental investigation | p. 227 |
| Cyclic behavior of reinforced concrete beams: different responses depending on mechanical and geometrical properties | p. 237 |
| Damage of concrete structures due to temperature changes | p. 247 |
| Development of damage and progressive fracture of an heterogeneous rock material | p. 257 |
| Goals and barriers to recycling of concrete and masonry | p. 269 |
| Recycled aggregates with fly-ash: an ecological and energy saving concrete | p. 284 |
| Demolition and recycling of a reinforced concrete bridge during construction of the great belt link in Denmark | p. 292 |
| Investigation of anti-bacterial ability of concrete | p. 307 |
| Mechanics of microdefected materials | p. 317 |
| Macrocrack propagation in materials with multi-scale microcracking | p. 324 |
| A damage model for rock with interacting microcracks | p. 334 |
| Damage propagation of jointed rock with consideration of joint roughness | p. 344 |
| Progressive damage of interfaces in layered rock due to cyclic impact | p. 356 |
| Evaluation of branching by marmor under uniaxial compressive loading | p. 366 |
| Physical and numerical modelling of sliding mode cracks in rock | p. 377 |
| A new principle of effective destruction of rock | p. 387 |
| Informational model of rock destruction and the principle of mining tool improvement | p. 393 |
| Local rock fracture under shock interaction with hard impactor | p. 399 |
| Nonlinear theory of vibrations in fragmented rocks and soils | p. 405 |
| Mechanics of dilatant fracturing of geomaterials | p. 412 |
| Influences of loading rates on the fracture toughness of rock | p. 418 |
| Effect of temperature on fracture toughness of rock | p. 426 |
| Hydraulic fracturing of concrete and rock | p. 435 |
| Cavitation damage and determination of tension and fatigue resistance in concrete surfaces | p. 445 |
| Study on crack propagation tests using large-scale concrete specimens | p. 455 |
| A contribution to the physically and geometrically nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete shells: application to buckling of cooling towers | p. 464 |
| Nonlinear analysis of damage in reinforced concrete structures subjected to seismic loading | p. 472 |
| 3D-numerical analysis of the slab-column connection | p. 483 |
| Strength and deformation capacity of slender RC beams | p. 493 |
| Probability analysis of thermal cracks in mass concrete | p. 503 |
| Bonded anchors subjected to long time and cyclic loads | p. 513 |
| Fastening elements in concrete structures - numerical simulations | p. 527 |
| Comparison of finite element concrete models simulating pull-out tests | p. 548 |
| Finite element analysis of anchor bolt pull-out based on fracture mechanics | p. 559 |
| Pull-out of steel anchors embedded in concrete | p. 569 |
| Tests of the load-bearing capacity of anchor bolts | p. 579 |
| Testing of anchor bolts in plane stress and axisymmetric geometries | p. 588 |
| Numerical analysis of anchor bolts embedded in concrete plates | p. 598 |
| Anchorage of strands in hollow core precast concrete elements | p. 608 |
| Design principles and monitoring of rock anchors and bolts comprising non-corrosive glass fiber materials | p. 617 |
| AE inversion analysis in pull-out tests | p. 627 |
| On concrete fatigue fracture in pull-out tests | p. 637 |
| Uplift behaviour of plate anchors embedded in sands: effect of grain shape, relative density and depth | p. 647 |
| Introducing Austrian innovative construction | p. 661 |
| Author index | p. 671 |
| Subject index | p. 673 |
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