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S. Seitl et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 42 (2017) 56-65; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.42.07 59 are the following: an average value on compressive strength of 36.8 ± 2% MPa, splitting tensile strength of 3.8 ± 9% MPa and Young’s modulus of 24.4 ± 4% GPa and for HSC, compressive strength of 97.0 ± 3% MPa, splitting tensile strength of 5.7 ± 4% MPa and Young’s modulus of 41.3 ±3%, detail see in [5]. The experimentally obtained maximum values of load for various notch length are shown in Tab. 3. Specimen MCT1 MCT2 MCT3 TPB1 TPB2  [-] 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.05 0.5 P max , NSC [N] 3667 2956 1168 6329 1987 P max , HSC [N] 7178 3584 2148 9581 3754 Table 3 : Crack length ratio for each specimen and experimental values of maximum load on NSC and HSC . C ALIBRATION CURVES FOR MCT or this work are used the results presented by Seitl and Viszlay [26] for MCT tests through 2D and 3D finite element model of steel bars and cement based materials. In their contribution, four mechanical fracture parameters (stress intensity factor, T -stress, crack opening displacement – COD and crack mouth opening displacement – CMOD) are evaluated by means of two finite element models, one of them 2D and the another 3D. All cases (2D and 3D model) were carried out for concrete with five various Young’s modulus ( E = 5, 20, 25, 60, 100 GPa) and the same Poisson ratio 0.2. The material was assumed to be homogeneous, isotropic with linear elastic behavior. The finite element software ANSYS was used for numerical analysis. For this paper, the calibration curves for E = 40 GPa were calculated. Obtained calibration curves used here for normalized stress intensity factor ( B 1 ) and T -stress, as B 2 , are follows: For stress intensity factor, K I : 2 3 4 5 1_ 2 ( 25, ) 4.4888 157.35 992.61 2913.2 3845.6 1937.8 D B E               (1)   2 3 4 5 1_ 2 40,   12.87 314.45 1992.3 5711.8 7387.7 3597.5 D B E              (2) 2 3 4 5 1_3 ( 25, ) 19.17 437.74 2795.2 7977.5 10259 4936.2 D B E               (3) For parameter T -stress: 2 3 4 2_ 2 ( 25, ) 0.352 2.6238 2.2014 9.8235 7.4131 D B E             (4)   2 3 4 2_ 2 40,   0.2776 1.8433 4.7557 13.039 8.8474 D B E            (5) 2 3 4 2_3 ( 25, ) 0.2905 2.2439 2.305 8.4968 6.315 D B E             (6) Evaluation of measured data The fracture properties, we focused in the article, are critical values of stress intensity factor and of T -stress. The Eqs. (7) and (8) were used to calculate the stress intensity factor and T -stress, respectively, for all cases according [16]. I 1 K aB    (7) 2 I K B T a   (8) F