Ductile-Fragile Transition: A Novel Comparison Between Fracture Mechanics of Materials and Framed Structures

Abstract

This paper deals with the issue of structural collapse considering an analogy between ductile-brittle transition of materials, taking into account the current literature which also considers the number of fragility and the stress intensification factor in the presence of crack, with extension on a larger scale involving framed structures subjected to increasing vertical loads. It is evaluated the ductile-fragile transition in relation to concrete frames with different structural hierarchy (2x2, 5x5, 11x11).

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