Activation energy based extreme value statistics and size effect in brittle and quasibrittle fracture

DOI10.1016/j.jmps.2006.05.007zbMath1173.74004OpenAlexW2035990458MaRDI QIDQ1027047

Zdeněk P. Bažant, Sze-Dai Pang

Publication date: 30 June 2009

Published in: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2006.05.007

zbMATH Keywords

safety factorsMaxwell-Boltzmann distributionrepresentative volume elementsinteratomic activation energy barriers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brittle fracture (74R10) Theories of fracture and damage (74A45) Molecular, statistical, and kinetic theories in solid mechanics (74A25)

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