Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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279444 | International Journal of Solids and Structures | 2008 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
This paper focuses on the development of a thermodynamic approach to constitutive modelling of concrete materials, with emphasis on the use of non-local damage models. Effort is put on the construction of a consistent and rigorous thermodynamic framework, which readily allows the incorporation of non-local features into the constitutive modelling. This is an important feature in developing non-local constitutive models based on thermodynamics. Examples of non-local constitutive models derived from this framework and numerical examples are given to demonstrate the promising features of the proposed approach.
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Authors
Giang D. Nguyen,