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Investigations of Nonlinear Behavior of Concrete

Panoskaltsis, Vassilis P.; Lubliner, Jacob

UCB/SEMM-1987/11, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1987-12, 28 pages

Experimental stress-strain curves from compression tests of 3X6 cylinders are presented. Several constituitive models which attempt to describe the nonlinear response of concrete under "large" strains are reviewed.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-87-11.pdf (1 MB)