Structural reliability assessment is imperative to keep structural safety, durability and serviceability. One vital factor of such assessment is determination of dominant [...]

The paper reports on the determination of basic mechanical material parameters of several concrete and alkali activated concrete and fly ash mixtures intended for the co [...]

Procedure for estimation of fracture process zone size of concrete as value of characteristic length which quantifies intrinsic brittleness of the material is presented i [...]

The paper deals with inverse analysis of loading the frame of walking undercarriage of the giant machine for the development of brown coal on the open mine Bilina. Artifi [...]

The paper suggests a new approach of inverse analysis to obtain parameters of FEM computational model in order to obtain best agreement with experimental data. The propos [...]

Physical and chemical changes in quasibrittle materials loaded with high temperature affect the fracture mechanical behavior of structures. Threepoint bending tests of no [...]

The paper is focused on statistical inverse analysis of material model parameters, where statistical parameters of input parameters have to be identified based on experim [...]

Proposed paper describes results of dynamic experimental testing of a set of cantilever beams made of timber. Presented experimental work is part of the project which aim [...]

The paper is focused on description and application of various transformations of a point sequence obtained for example from a fracture experiment. Typical reason for suc [...]

Presented work describes part of grant project Complex modeling of fracture experiments which deals with correct selection of softening law in tension for numerical model [...]