This title provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the mechanical behavior of concrete, including such features as its elastoplasticity, its compressive and tensile strength, its behavior over time (including creep and shrinkage, cracking and fatigue) as well as modeling techniques and its response to various stimuli. As such, it will be required reading for anyone wishing to increase their knowledge in this area.

Foreword xiPART 1. INSTANTANEOUS OR TIME-INDEPENDENT MODELS FOR CONCRETE1Chapter 1. Test Techniques and Experimental Characterization3Nicolas BURLION1.1. Introduction 31.2. Experimental specificities related to concrete material41.3. Extensometers and experimental conditions 121.4. Behavior of concrete under uniaxial stress: classical tests211.5. Concrete under multiaxial stresses 321.6. Conclusions regarding the experimental characterization ofthe multiaxial behavior of concrete 541.7. Bibliography 55Chapter 2. Modeling the Macroscopic Behavior of Concrete63Jean-Marie REYNOUARD, Jean-François GEORGIN, Khalil HAIDAR andGilles PIJAUDIER-CABOT2.1. Introduction 632.2. The discrete approach 652.3. Continuous approach 712.4. Conclusion 1062.5. Bibliography 115Chapter 3. Failure and Size Effect of Structural Concrete121Gilles PIJAUDIER-CABOT and Khalil HAIDAR3.1. Introduction 1213.2. Probabilistic structural size effect 1243.3. Deterministic size effect 1303.4. Fractality and size effect 1343.5. Size effect and calibration of non-local models 1383.6. Conclusions 1433.7. Acknowledgement 1453.8. Bibliography 145PART 2. CONCRETE UNDER CYCLIC AND DYNAMIC LOADING 149Chapter 4. Cyclic Behavior of Concrete and ReinforcedConcrete 151Jean-François DUBÉ4.1. Characterization tests of the cyclic behavior 1514.2. Modeling the reinforced concrete cyclic behavior 1634.3. Modeling of the cyclic behavior of concrete 1704.4. Conclusions 1804.5. Bibliography 181Chapter 5. Cyclic and Dynamic Loading Fatigue of StructuralConcrete 185Jean-François DESTREBECQ5.1. Introduction 1855.2. The mechanisms of concrete fatigue 1865.3. The fatigue strength under uniaxial compression or traction1935.4. Extension to Aas-Jakobsen's formula 1975.5. Fatigue under multiaxial loading 2025.6. Fatigue under high-level cyclic loading 2075.7. Fatigue strength under variable level cyclic loadings2145.8. Bibliography 219Chapter 6. Rate-Dependent Behavior and Modeling for TransientAnalyses 225Fabrice GATUINGT6.1. Introduction 2256.2. Experimental behavior 2256.3. Behavior modeling of concrete in dynamics 2406.4. Bibliography 261PART 3. TIME-DEPENDENT RESPONSE OF CONCRETE 265Chapter 7. Concrete at an Early Age: the Major Parameters267Vincent WALLER and Buqan MIAO7.1. Introduction 2677.2. Influence of the composition of concrete 2677.3. Consequences of boundary conditions 2827.4. Conclusion 2907.5. Bibliography 290Chapter 8. Modeling Concrete at Early Age 297Franz-Josef ULM, Jean-Michel TORRENTI, Benoît BISSONETTE andJacques MARCHAND8.1. Introduction 2978.2. The coupled thermo-chemo-mechanical problem 2978.3. Data collection and experimental methods 3098.4. Conclusion 3318.5. Bibliography 331Chapter 9. Delayed Effects - Creep and Shrinkage339Farid BENBOUDJEMA, Fékri MEFTAH, Grégory HEINFLING,Fabrice LEMAOU and Jean Michel TORRENTI9.1. Introduction 3399.2. Definitions and mechanisms 3409.3. Experimental approach 3549.4. Delayed response modeling 3619.5. Codified models 3839.6. Conclusion 4009.7. Bibliography 400Closing Remarks: New Concretes, New Techniques, and FutureModels 409Jean Michel TORRENTI, Gilles PIJAUDIER-CABOT and Jean-MarieREYNOUARDList of Authors 415Index 417