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State of the art report—Part 2: Mechanical micro-cracking of concrete

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  • TC-122-MLC: Micro-Cracking and Lifetime Performance of Concrete
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TC MEMBERSHIP: Chairman: Arne Damgaard Jensen, Denmark;Secretary: Susanta Chatterji, Denmark;Members: Nemkamur Banthia, Canada; Alain Bascoul, France; J.M. Bijen, The Netherlands; Roland Dreesen, Belgium; Björn Lagerblad, Sweden, Yasunori Matsufuji, Japan; Hans-Wolf Reinhardt, Germany; Ei-ichi Tazawa, Japan; Jean-Michel Torrenti, France; Jan G.M. van Mier, The Netherlands; Enric Vazquez, Spain.

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Bascoul, A. State of the art report—Part 2: Mechanical micro-cracking of concrete. Mat. Struct. 29, 67–78 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02486196

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