Papers Published

1. Ojdrovic, R. and Petroski, H.J., The cracked Brazilian specimen for fracture toughness testing of concrete, Int. J. Fract. (Netherlands), vol. 27 no. 3-4 (1985), pp. 75 - 80 .
   (last updated on 2007/04/09)

   Abstract:
   Because of the many desirable characteristics of the stress field in a cylindrical specimen, a cylinder with a notch on the vertical diameter and loaded as in the splitting test is proposed as an ideal specimen for fracture toughness experiments with concrete

   Keywords:
   concrete;fracture toughness testing;notch testing;