Zdeněk Bažant - Selected publications#

h -index = 94; 39,000 journal citations (minus ~10% self-citations); i10 index = 460, on Google, June 2014
(total number of articles in refereed journal = 575 in 2014)

Bažant, Z.P., and Pang, S.-D. (2006). “Mechanics based statistics of failure risk of quasibrittle structures and size effect on safety factors.” Proc., Nat. Academy of Sciences 103(25), 9434–9439.

2004 Bažant, Z.P. (2004). “Scaling theory for quasibrittle structural failure.” Proc., National Academy of Sciences 101 (37), 13397–13399.

2007 Bažant, Z.P., and Pang, S.-D. (2007). “Activation energy based extreme value statistics and size effect in brittle and quasibrittle fracture”. J. of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 55, 91–134.

2005 Bažant, Z.P. Scaling of structural strength, 2nd ed. Elsevier, London (327 pp.).

1998 Bažant, Z.P. & J. Planas, J.. Fracture and Size Effect. CRC Press, Boca Raton (616 pp.).

2010 Bažant, Z.P., and Cedolin, L. (2010). Stability of stuctures: Elastic, inelastic, fracture and damage theories, 3rd ed, WSP New Jersey (1st ed., Oxford UP, 1991)

2002 Jirásek, M. & Bažant, Z.P. Inelastic Analysis of Structures. J. Wiley & Sons (735 pp.).
1984 Bažant, Z.P. “Size effect in blunt fracture: Concrete, rock, metal.” J. of Engrg. Mechanics, ASCE, 110 (4), 518–535

2002 Bažant, Z.P., and Jirásek, M. (2002). "Nonlocal integral formulations of plasticity and damage: Survey of progress". ASCE J. of Engrg. Mechanics 128 (11), 1119–1149.

Bažant, Z.P., Zi, G., and Meyer, C. (2000). "Fracture mechanicsof ASR in concretes with waste glass particles of different sizes." J. of Engrg. Mechanics ASCE 126 (3), 226–232.

Bažant, Z.P., Caner, F.C., Carol, I., Adley, M.D., and Akers, S.A. (2000). ``Microplane model M4 for concrete: I. Formulation withwork-conjugate deviatoric stress." J. of Engrg. Mechanics ASCE} 126 (9), 944–953.

Bažant, Z.P., Yu, Qiang, Li (2011). "Size effect testing of cohesive fracture parameters and non-uniqueness of work-of-fracture method." ASCE J. of Engrg. Mech. 137 (8), 580–588.

Bazant, Z.P. and Vorel, J, (2014), "Energy conservation error due to the use of Green-Naghdi objective stress rate in commercial finite-element codes and its compensation," ASME J. of Applied Mechanics 81, pp. 021008-1 - 121008-5.

Bazant, Z.P. and Caner, F.C. (2013) "Comminution of solids caused by kinetic energy of high shear strain rate, with implications for impact, shock and shale fracturing," Proc. National Academy of Sciences 110(48), 19291-19294.

Bazant M.Z. and Bazant, Z.P. (2012), "Theory of sorption hysteresis in nonporous solids: Part I Snap-through instabilities, Part II Molecular condensation," J. of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 60, 1644-1659 & 1660-1675.

Bazant, Z.P., Gattu, M. and Vorel, J. (2012), "Work conjugacy error in commercial finite-element codes: its magnitude and how to compensate it.", Proc. of the Royal Society A468, 3047-3058.

Le J.-L. and Bazant Z.P. (2010), "Scaling of strength of metal-composite joints: I. Experimental investigation, II. Interface fracture analysis, ASME J. of Applied Mechanics 77, 011011-1 - 011011-8 & 011012-1 - 011012-7."

Bazant, Z.P. and Le Jia-Liang (2009), Nanomechanics based modeling of lifetime distribution of quasistatic structures," Engineering Failure Analysis 16, 2521-2529.

Bazant, ZP, Salviato, M. et al. (2014). "Why fracking works." J. of Appl. Mech. ASME 81, October.
Bazant, Z.P., Hubler, M.H., and Yu, Qiang (2011). "Pervasiveness of excessive segmental bridge deflections: A wake-up call for creep." ACI Structural Journal} 108 (6, Nov.-Dec.), 766-774.

Caner, F.C., and Bazant, Z.P. (2013). "Microplane model M7 for plain concrete: I. formulation."ASCE J. of Engrg. Mechanics 139 (12), Dec., 1714--1723.

Bazant, Z.P., Kim, K.-T., and Yu, Q. (2013). "Non-uniqueness of cohesive-crack stress-separation law of human and bovine bones and remedy by size effect tests." Int. J. of Fracture 181, 67-81.

Bazant, Z.P., and Hubler, M.H. (2014). "Theory of cyclic creep of concrete based on Paris law for fatigue growth of subcritical microcracks." J. of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 63, 187-200.

Hoover, C.G., and Bazant, Z.P. (2014). "Cohesive crack, size effect, crack band and work-of-fracture models compared to comprehensive concrete fracture tests." Int. J. of Fracture 187 (1), pp. 133-143.

Bazant, Z.P., and Caner, F.C. (2014). "Impact comminution of solids due to local kinetic energy of high shear strain rate: I. Continuum theory and turbulence analogy." J. of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 64, 223-235 (with Corrigendum, Vol. 67 (2014), p. 14).

Salviato, M., Kirane, K., and Bazant, Z.P. (2014). "Statistical distribution and size effect of residual strength after a period of constant load." J. of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 64, 440-454.

Bazant, Z.P., Yu, Qiang (2011). "Size effect testing of cohesive fracture parameters and non-uniqueness of work-of-fracture method." ASCE J. of Engrg. Mech.} 137 (8), 580-588.

Bazant, Z.P., Yu, Qiang, and Li, Guang-Hua (2012). "Excessive long-time deflections of prestressed box girders: I. Record-span bridge in Palau and other paradigms." ASCE J. of Structural Engrg. 138 (6), 676-686.