The present paper describes a semi-analytical fracture model based on the cracked hinge approach by Ulfkjær [1]. Some extensions of the original fomrulation are introduced and also implemented (as JAVA code) to enable the use of any softening function with arbitrary shape for the cracked part of the model, which is considered as a fictitious (cohesive) crack. The application of the model to the wedge-splitting test (WST) is validated, showing the consistency of the adopted formulations with reference data. Furthermore, the capability of the model to integrate various softening curves is verified using FEM simulations. and Obsahuje seznam literatury