Zdeněk P. Bažant
Northwestern University
504 Papers
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Zdeněk P. Bažant is an academic researcher from Northwestern University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fracture mechanics & Creep. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 482 publications. Previous affiliations of Zdeněk P. Bažant include Argonne National Laboratory & Czech Technical University in Prague.
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Papers
Initial Postcritical Analysis of Asymmetric Bifurcation in Frames
Zdeněk P. Bažant,Luigi Cedolin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the stiffness matrices and stability functions from linear stability theory of frames were used for analysis of the second order axial shortening of columns due to lateral deflection, which induces asymmetric shear forces and bending moments transmitted into the column from adjacent beams.
Concrete Reinforcing Net: Safe Design
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the limit design of a dence regular reinforcing net in concrete panels or walls under in-plane loading with consideration of friction on the cracks due to aggregate interlock.
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Smeared-tip superposition method for nonlinear and time-dependent fracture
TL;DR: In this paper, a crack with bridging stresses is treated as a superposition of many cracks whose tips are continuously distributed (smeared) along the crack line, and the solution is reduced to an integral equation for the components of the applied load associated with crack tips at various locations.
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Microprestress-Solidification Theory and Creep at Variable Humidity and Temperature
Zdeněk P. Bažant,Milan Jirásek +1 more
- 01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the microprestress is defined as an overall characteristic of the disjoining pressures in nanopores filled by hindered adsorbed water and the counterbalancing tensile stresses in the nanostructure of hydrated cement.
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Stable Path of Interacting Crack Systems and Micromechanics of Damage
Zdeněk P. Bažant,Mazen R. Tabbara,Mohammad Kazemi +2 more
- 01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: In this paper, the incremental entropy of a typical symmetric crack system is calculated for various points on the response paths of some typical asymmetric crack systems and it is shown that while the symmetric states may be stable, the path which leads to them is unstable and cannot occur in reality.