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Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Steel-Fibrous Concrete

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The book deals with a fracture process in plain concrete and in fibrous concrete elements including straight steel fibres. The experimental results of numerous tests described in the scientific literature and the numerical results obtained with a novel discrete lattice model were presented.

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Tejchman, J., Kozicki, J. (2010). Epilogue. In: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Steel-Fibrous Concrete. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14603-9_6

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