Guanxi Yan

Oct 1, 2024 | mdpi.com | Yongxing Lu |Honggen Xu |Can Wang |Guanxi Yan

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Oct 18, 2023 | mdpi.com | Xiaoqing Lu |Guanxi Yan

4. Summary and Concluding RemarksIn practice, cracked concrete structures sometimes experience mixed-mode loading combining tensile and shearing modes (types I and II). Motivated by this, many SCB tests have been carried out under this mixed-mode loading condition to study concrete fracturing behavior. Many earlier studies were focused on either tensile (type I) loading or this mixed-mode loading condition by using a straight-through notch in pre-cracked concrete specimens.