Numerical Modeling of Concrete Cracking

The book "Numerical Modeling of Concrete Cracking" offers a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical foundations of various approaches to modeling cracks in concrete. It provides a critical overview of the current state of the art in computational concrete dynamics. The authors, Guenter Hofstetter and Guenther Meschke, address a wide range of topics related to crack modeling, including continuous and discrete crack models as well as mesoscale models. Special attention is given to advanced discretization strategies that enable the capture of developing cracks using finite element methods with embedded discontinuities and the extended finite element method. Additionally, extensions to coupled problems, such as hygro-mechanical issues, are discussed, which are essential for the computational durability analysis of concrete structures.