A study of localized failure modes in brittle materials

Localization studies arise from the need to accurately model the behaviour of materials which exhibit instabilities due to strain softening or geometric effects. Localization in finite element modelling of brittle materials such as concrete and rock is a relatively unexplored area in computational m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burger, B B
Other Authors: Resende, Luís Nuno da Costa
Format: Dissertation
Language:Eng
Published: University of Cape Town 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17652