Structural safety, durability and robustness of complex concrete discontinuity regions under uncertainties Ghent University
The safety, durability and robustness of concrete structures largely depends on the ability to accurately predict their (time-dependent) structural response for which the development of appropriate modelling techniques is of paramount importance. However, in concrete discontinuity regions such as deep beams, half joints, corbels, nodes, etc., the strain distribution is significantly non-linear. Hence, for design and assessment typically limit ...