...Zihan Jiang; Zhiwen Zhu; Federico Accornero; Giuseppe Lacidogna Compression failure of concrete without effective confinement may show brittle failure modes, and size effects are crucial for understanding catastrophic behaviours. In this study, acoustic emission (AE) and digital image correlation...

... variable displacement transducers and the digital image correlation technique. The strain profiles at different loading stages were used to identify the crack evolution process. The average localised strain was found to be 0.2–0.36%, with corresponding crack widths of 0.3–0.6 mm. A uniaxial tensile stress...