Hadi Kusnanto, Waluyo Adi Siswanto, Supriyono Supriyono, Mohammad Sukri Mustapa
Concrete cracking behavior under distributed forces is influenced by several factors such as material properties, crack initiation, propagation, and the impact of external loads. This paper aims to explore the relationship between concrete surface conditions and concrete material shape and concrete crack patterns under compressive loads. The literature review method uses general search queries with the most important keywords from academic databases, from reputable source Scopus and Science Direct. Following is an example of a query applied in a database for extraction: “ rough AND surface AND contact ”; “ fracture AND mechanics AND of AND concrete ”; “ pressure AND test AND system ”; “ concrete AND crack AND pattern AND modeling ”; “ concrete AND crack AND pattern AND concrete AND compression AND test ”; “ surface AND contact AND in AND compression AND test ”; “ surface AND contact AND in AND concrete AND compression AND test ”. The literature is limited from 2000 to 2025, obtaining the following three general topic groups: “rough surface contact” with 7347 articles, “compression testing system” with 2108 articles and “concrete crack mechanics” with 4307 articles. The resultss is then further filtered out by applying four groups: “concrete crack pattern in compression test” with 35 articles, “concrete crack pattern modeling” with 60 articles, “surface contact in compression test” with 31 articles and “surface contact in concrete compression test” with 5 articles. A total of 137 identified articles were entered into the Mendeley database in .ris format and then evaluated them using Vosveiwer application to see the most frequently appearing and relevant keyword relationships for the proposed research. Mapping results acwuires keywords “numerical simulation”, “concrete”, “fracture” and “crack propagation” most frequently occurring and interconnected. A systematic sythesis are then implemented and compiled for a comprehensive review article relates in a meningful literature.