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Report on ONR Workshop on Fracture Scaling

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The paper reports on the discussions at the ONR Workshop on Fracture Scaling, held at University of Maryland in June 1999, under the chairmanship of Z.P. Bažant and Y.D.S. Rajapakse. The workshop dealt with size effects in structural failure and scale bridging in mechanics of materials. The lectures at the Workshop were published in Volume 95 of this Journal. The objective of this paper is to present records and interpretations of the extensive discussions prepared by invited specialists. The records show which are the areas of disagreement among leading researchers and which are those where consensus has been reached.

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  1. Civil Engineering and Materials Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 60208, U.S.A. (e-mail

    Z.P. Bažant (Chair of)

  2. Solid Mechanics Program, Office of Naval Research (ONR 334), Ship Structures and Systems S&T Division, 800 N. Quincy Street (BCT #1), Arlington, Virginia, 22217-566O, U.S.A. (e-mail

    Y.D.S. Rajapakse

  3. Aerospace Engineering Department, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, U.S.A

    D.H. Allen

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106- 7201, U.S.A. (e-mail

    R. Ballarini

  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 60208, U.S.A

    H.D. Espinosa

  6. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 267 Durand Building, Stanford, California, 94305-4040, U.S.A. (e-mail

    H. Gao

  7. Structural Technology Laboratory, Department of Construction Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Jordi Girona 1-3, Edificio C1, 08034, Barcelona, Spain (e-mail

    R. Gettu

  8. LSC-DGC, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    M. Jirásek

  9. LMT, ENS, Cachan/CNRS/Université P. et M. Curie, 61, Av. du Président Wilson, F-94235, Cachan, France

    G. Pijaudier-Cabot

  10. Institut Universitaire de France, France(e-mail

    G. Pijaudier-Cabot

  11. Dep. Ciencia de Materiales, E.T.S. de Ingenierios de Caminos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040, Madrid, Spain (e-mail

    J. Planas & F.J. Ulm

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Bažant, Z., Rajapakse, Y., Allen, D. et al. Report on ONR Workshop on Fracture Scaling. International Journal of Fracture 113, 345–366 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014293822196

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