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Pavements, Concrete --- Concrete construction --- Building, Concrete --- Concrete building --- Construction, Concrete --- Building --- Concrete pavements --- Pavements, Flexible --- Design and construction --- Technological innovations.

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Durability and service lifeIntroductionDurability and service lifeStrategies and costDurable concretePractical durability approachMore advanced durability designReferencesInappropriate designIntroductionInappropriate dimensions and detailingWrong estimation of loadingInappropriate estimation of creep effectsInappropriate mix designReferencesErrors during castingIntroductionErrors during proportioningInappropriate mixingAggressive substances within the mixWrong placement of reinforcementBad compaction and other problems during castingProblems with formworksDamage in plastic stageReferencesActio

Concrete construction. --- Building failures --- Concrete --- Prevention. --- Testing. --- Collapse of buildings --- Building --- Disasters --- Structural failures --- Building, Concrete --- Concrete building --- Construction, Concrete --- Accidents

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"Unlike the more specialist books which deal with diagnosis techniques or non-destructive testing, with repair and strengthening of concrete structures or with specific degradation mechanisms such as sulfate attack or alkali-silica reaction, this book describes and explains the different types of damage to concrete structures comprehensively. It is written as a textbook for undergraduate and masters students, and is also helpful to practitioners such as design engineers, architects or consultants"

Civil engineering. Building industry --- Structural parts and elements of building --- Concrete construction. --- Building failures --- Concrete --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Structural --- Prevention. --- Testing. --- 693.5 --- 691.3 --- Concrete construction work. Concreting. In-situ concrete. Mass concrete. Reinforced concrete. Prestressed concrete --- Artificial stone. Concrete. Various agglomerates --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING --- Construction --- General --- Structural --- General. --- Structural. --- 691.3 Artificial stone. Concrete. Various agglomerates --- 693.5 Concrete construction work. Concreting. In-situ concrete. Mass concrete. Reinforced concrete. Prestressed concrete --- Technology & engineering --- Concrete construction --- Collapse of buildings --- Building --- Disasters --- Structural failures --- Building, Concrete --- Concrete building --- Construction, Concrete --- Prevention --- Testing --- Accidents

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The book analyzes a quasi-static fracture process in concrete and reinforced concrete by means of constitutive models formulated within continuum mechanics. A continuous and discontinuous modelling approach was used. Using a continuous approach, numerical analyses were performed using a finite element method and three different enhanced continuum models: isotropic elasto-plastic, isotropic damage and anisotropic smeared crack one. The models were equipped with a characteristic length of micro-structure by means of a non-local and a second-gradient theory. So they could properly describe the formation of localized zones with a certain thickness and spacing and a related deterministic size effect. Using a discontinuous FE approach, numerical results of cracks using a cohesive crack model and XFEM were presented which were also properly regularized. Finite element analyses were performed with concrete elements under monotonic uniaxial compression, uniaxial tension, bending and shear-extension. Concrete beams under cyclic loading were also simulated using a coupled elasto-plastic-damage approach. Numerical simulations were performed at macro- and meso-level of concrete. A stochastic and deterministic size effect was carefully investigated. In the case of reinforced concrete specimens, FE calculations were carried out with bars, slender and short beams, columns, corbels and tanks. Tensile and shear failure mechanisms were studied. Numerical results were compared with results from corresponding own and known in the scientific literature laboratory and full-scale tests.    .

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