Springer Size Effect in Concrete Materials and Structures

The present book gathers a large amount of the recent research results on this topic to provide a better understanding of the size effect by giving a quantitative description of the relationship between the properties of engineering concrete-making material (e.g. the nominal strength) and the corresponding structure size. To be precise, this is about to explore the new static and dynamic unified size effect laws for concrete materials, as well as size effect laws for concrete components. Besides presenting clear and accurate descriptions that further deepen our fundamental knowledge, this book provides additionally useful tools for the scientific design of concrete structures in practical engineering applications.  From the Back Cover The present book gathers a large amount of the recent research results on this topic to provide a better understanding of the size effect by giving a quantitative description of the relationship between the properties of engineering concrete-making material (e.g. the nominal strength) and the corresponding structure size. To be precise, this is about to explore the new static and dynamic unified size effect laws for concrete materials, as well as size effect laws for concrete components. Besides presenting clear and accurate descriptions that further deepen our fundamental knowledge, this book provides additionally useful tools for the scientific design of concrete structures in practical engineering applications.  About the Author Xiuli Du, male, Ph.D, Professor and born in 1962. He is a doctoral tutor and obtained doctor’s degree for Disaster Prevention and Reduction Engineering and Protective Engineering in Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration in 1990. He is a "Cheung Kong Scholar" awarded by the Administration of Education of China, also been supported by the National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar, been awarded the honor of " Outstanding Scientist in China", is one of the talents introduced by “ The New Century National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project” in China. He is now vice-president of Beijing University of Technology, Advisory Consultant of Science Departments and head of the Evaluating Committee for Civil engineering and Transportation Engineering of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Member of the Civil Engineering Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. He is the President of International Society of Lifeline and Infrastructure Earthquake Engineering, committee member of The International Association of Protective Structures, Seismology Society of China, China Civil Engineering Society, The Architectural Society of China, The Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering. He has been dedicated to teaching and scientific research of Structure dynamics, Soil dynamics and Geotechnical Earthquake engineering in Harbin Institute of Technology, China, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research and Beijing University of Technology in China. He has been in charge of more than 30 major national and provincial-level projects and more than 10 projects in community service. He has published more than 400 papers in English and Chinese, and published 3 monograph, in Chinese. He has been awarded 5 2nd Class National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 4 1st Class provincial-level Science and Technology Progress Awards and 3 2nd Class provincial-level Science and Technology Progress Awards. Liu Jin, male, Ph.D, Professor and born in 1985. He is a doctoral tutor, and received his Ph.D. degree in civil engineering in 2014 from Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), China. He did his post-doctoral research in Tsinghua University during 2014-2016. He joined the college of civil and architectural engineering of BJUT in April, 2016, and he became professor in 2016. He is been supported by the National Outstandin