PSI - Issue 47

Domenico Ammendolea et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 47 (2023) 488–502 Author name / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2019) 000–000

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Figure 5. Mode-I four-point bending test: R -curves for the four percentage contents of GNP reinforcement.

Figure 6. Mode-I four-point bending test. (a) a comparison in terms of load versus deflection of midpoint of the beam between the results gained by the proposed method and the experimental outcomes obtained by Meng and Khayat (Meng and Khayat, 2016). (b) snapshots of the numerically predicted deformed configurations of the beam evaluated at the same deflection of 1.2 mm.