Evaluation and simulations of fracture test of concrete specimens in selected configurations

This thesis deals with the evaluation of the selected fracture test configurations of concrete specimens. These configurations are the wedge splitting test or combinations of wedge splitting test and three point bending. The first part is theoretical and it describes the use of fracture mechanics on the quasi-brittle material - concrete. There are also described linear and nonlinear fracture theory, improvement process of fracture tests and also determination of the fracture parameters from the tests. The second part is practical and it describes editing of load-displacement diagrams by using GTDiPS application and then evaluation of the diagrams. The result of this work is comparison of the concrete fracture energy in each geometric variations of the tests