The use of high performance concrete as a construction material is becoming very common lately. This fact imposes the need of a better knowledge of this material, aiming to keep the structural design with an appropriate safety level. The advantages provided by this material, specially its compressive strength, allowed a generalized improvement in the building processes e the consequent increase in the structural members size. Added the fact that the high performance concrete has a recognizably more brittle behavior, it`s started to apply some Fracture Mechanics theory concepts to analyze the structures behavior. Then, the fracture mechanics size effect should be suitably considered in design. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to verify experimentally the occurrence of the size effect phenomenon on high performance concrete and to carry out a comparison with numerical results found in the literature. It`s also objectified to study the behavior of the referred concrete in three point bent tests and to calculate its fracture energy by means of two different methods. During this study three point bend tests in notched beams made with unreinforced concrete were carried out. These tests comply with the specifications given by RILEM 50-FMC committee. The specimens were cast at the PUC- Rio Structures Laboratory and the tests were conducted at the Technology Institute (ITUC) of this university. The tests were performed in a servo-controlled materials testing system. It were tested 60 specimens, with 4 different sizes and with heights varying from 38mm to 304mm. The concrete had a water/cement ratio varying from 0.37 to 0.25 and a compressive strength between 64 MPa and 88MPa.