Behavior and Assessment of Massive Structures: An Overview of the French Research Programs CEOS.fr and VeRCoRs

Main results of two major research French programs on the study of the behavior of massive structures are presented. CEOS.fr includes three working areas that relate to the control for cracking: THM behavior, monotonic loadings and cyclic loading, including experiments and modeling on large specimens. VeRCoRs is a research program organized around tests performed on a mock-up of a reactor containment building at scale 1/3. A lot of measurements are collected since pouring of concrete and predictive calculations were made in the framework of an international benchmark. Some of these results are presented in this paper.