A crack-tracking technique for localized cohesive-frictional damage

This paper extends the use of crack-tracking techniques within the smeared crack approach for the numerical simulation of cohesive-frictional damage on quasi-brittle materials. The mechanical behaviour is described by an isotropic damage model with a Mohr-Coulomb failure surface. The correct crack p...

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Autores: Saloustros, Savvas|||0000-0002-9513-8373, Pelà, Luca|||0000-0001-7760-8290, Cervera Ruiz, Miguel|||0000-0003-3437-6703
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:catalán
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/86670
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/86670
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2015.10.039
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fracture mechanics
Continuum damage model
Crack-propagation
Cracking
Strain localization
Mohr-Coulomb
QUASI-BRITTLE MATERIALS
FINITE-ELEMENT-METHOD
MATERIAL FAILURE
X-FEM
CONCRETE
FRACTURE
PROPAGATION
PLASTICITY
STRESS
GROWTH
Mecànica de fractura
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Geologia
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Sumario:This paper extends the use of crack-tracking techniques within the smeared crack approach for the numerical simulation of cohesive-frictional damage on quasi-brittle materials. The mechanical behaviour is described by an isotropic damage model with a Mohr-Coulomb failure surface. The correct crack propagation among the two alternative fracture planes proposed by the Mohr-Coulomb theory is selected with the use of an energy criterion based on the total elastic strain energy. The simulation of three benchmark problems of mixed-mode fracture in concrete demonstrates that the proposed methodology can reproduce the material's frictional characteristics, showing robustness, as well as mesh-size and mesh-bias independence. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.