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As a classic device for testing the dynamic mechanical properties of materials, the splitting Hopkinson pressure bar was used to carry out dynamic splitting tests on concrete in this paper. The variation of the dynamic tensile strength against the stress rate was fitted by the incubation time criterion. The full-field strain distribution on the observed surface of the specimen at the crack initiation stage was obtained by the digital image correlation (DIC) method. Morphological characteristics of the fragmentized process of concrete specimens in splitting processes were obtained by combining the image processing techniques and the FracPaQ. The size distribution of fragments of concrete specimens was obtained by sieving. The results show that the strain concentration zone and crack initiation appear along the loading direction through the center of the specimen. The secondary cracks initiated occurred at the contact end of the specimen, which expanded along the strain concentration zone and then interacted with the main crack. At the early stage of crack extension, the main crack dominates the normalized length of fracture traces in the horizontal direction. The normalized length of the vertical fracture trace increases with the main cracks opening width and the expansion of the secondary crack. The relationship between the length and angle of fracture traces in the dynamic splitting process of concrete conforms to the Gaussian function. 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