"Quasibrittle materials such as concrete, fiber composites, rocks, tough ceramics, sea ice, dry snow slabs, wood and some biomaterials, fail at different nominal strengths with respect to their structural size. Smaller structures fail in a ductile mannerwhich usually involves distributed cracking with strain-softening. The stress redistribution that is caused by fracture and distributed cracking engenders an energetic size effect, i.e., decrease of the nominal strength of structures with increasing sttructure size. A structure far larger than the fracture process zone (FPZ) fails in an almost perfectly brittle manner and, if the failure occurs right at the crack initiation,the failure load is governed by the statistically weakest point in the structure, which gives a basis to the statistical size effect. Strategies for capturing the statistical size effect using the stochastic finite element method in the sense of extreme value statistics are presented. They combine feasible types of Monte Car"@cs . . "588187" . . . . . "VUT v Brn\u011B" . "Quasibrittle materials such as concrete, fiber composites, rocks, tough ceramics, sea ice, dry snow slabs, wood and some biomaterials, fail at different nominal strengths with respect to their structural size. Smaller structures fail in a ductile mannerwhich usually involves distributed cracking with strain-softening. The stress redistribution that is caused by fracture and distributed cracking engenders an energetic size effect, i.e., decrease of the nominal strength of structures with increasing sttructure size. A structure far larger than the fracture process zone (FPZ) fails in an almost perfectly brittle manner and, if the failure occurs right at the crack initiation,the failure load is governed by the statistically weakest point in the structure, which gives a basis to the statistical size effect. Strategies for capturing the statistical size effect using the stochastic finite element method in the sense of extreme value statistics are presented. They combine feasible types of Monte Car"@en . . "26110" . . "Vo\u0159echovsk\u00FD, Miroslav" . "Quasibrittle materials such as concrete, fiber composites, rocks, tough ceramics, sea ice, dry snow slabs, wood and some biomaterials, fail at different nominal strengths with respect to their structural size. Smaller structures fail in a ductile mannerwhich usually involves distributed cracking with strain-softening. The stress redistribution that is caused by fracture and distributed cracking engenders an energetic size effect, i.e., decrease of the nominal strength of structures with increasing sttructure size. A structure far larger than the fracture process zone (FPZ) fails in an almost perfectly brittle manner and, if the failure occurs right at the crack initiation,the failure load is governed by the statistically weakest point in the structure, which gives a basis to the statistical size effect. Strategies for capturing the statistical size effect using the stochastic finite element method in the sense of extreme value statistics are presented. They combine feasible types of Monte Car" . "Stochastick\u00E1 lomov\u00E1 mechanika a vliv velikosti"@cs . . . . . "Doktorsk\u00E1 dizerta\u010Dn\u00ED pr\u00E1ce" . "Brno" . . . . "80-214-2695-0" . "RIV/00216305:26110/04:PU44806" . "Stochastic fracture mechanics and size effect" . . . . . "1"^^ . . "170"^^ . . "Stochastic fracture mechanics and size effect"@en . . . "1"^^ . "[0F1C471F93BC]" . "Stochastick\u00E1 lomov\u00E1 mechanika a vliv velikosti"@cs . . "Stochastic fracture mechanics and size effect"@en . . "Stochastic fracture mechanics and size effect" . . . "RIV/00216305:26110/04:PU44806!RIV06-GA0-26110___" . "Probabilistic-based assessment, failure probability, reliability, reliability, software, Latin Hypercube Sampling, sensitivity analysis, quasibrittle materials, concrete,multi-filament yarn, fiber bundle models, delayed activation,nonlinear fracture mech"@en . . "P(GA103/00/0603), P(GA103/02/1030), P(GV103/97/K003), Z(MSM 261100007)" . .