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process). To avoid this situation, the use of eye nuts at the ends of the steel bars could be the solution. The eye nuts are allowed to rotate around the pin, which is fixed (see Fig. 8 b)).

Figure 7 : Fracture energy – input values and those obtained from numerical results.

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Pin Eye nut

Figure 8 : Results of MCT numerical models with cracks – deformed models magnified 200 times.

A CKNOWLEDGMENTS

his paper was written with the support of junior specific research project No. SV FAST-J-15-2760, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic project No. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0214, Asturian Regional Government project No. SV-PA-11-012 and Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain project No. T

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