A new plastic-damage model for concrete subjected to cyclic loading is developed using the concepts of fracture-energy-based damage and stiffness degradation in continuum damage mechanics. Two damage variables, one for tensile damage and the other for compressive damage, and a yield function with multiple-hardening variables are introduced to account for different damage states. The uniaxial strength functions are factored into two parts, corresponding to the effective stress and the degradation of elastic stiffness. The constitutive relations for elastoplastic responses are decoupled from the degradation damage response, which provides advantages in the numerical implementation. In the present model, the strength function for the effective stress is used to control the evolution of the yield surface, so that calibration with experimental results is convenient. A simple and thermodynamically consistent scalar degradation model is introduced to simulate the effect of damage on elastic stiffness and its recovery during crack opening and closing. The performance of the plastic-damage model is demonstrated with several numerical examples of simulating monotonically and cyclically loaded concrete specimens.

Plastic-Damage Model for Cyclic Loading of Concrete Structures

There have been a number of review papers on layered silicate and carbon nanotube reinforced polymer nanocomposites, in which the fillers have high aspect ratios. Particulate–polymer nanocomposites containing fillers with small aspect ratios are also an important class of polymer composites. However, they have been apparently overlooked. Thus, in this paper, detailed discussions on the effects of particle size, particle/matrix interface adhesion and particle loading on the stiffness, strength and toughness of such particulate–polymer composites are reviewed. To develop high performance particulate composites, it is necessary to have some basic understanding of the stiffening, strengthening and toughening mechanisms of these composites. A critical evaluation of published experimental results in comparison with theoretical models is given.

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Effects of particle size, particle/matrix interface adhesion and particle loading on mechanical properties of particulate–polymer composites

A model of isotropic ductile plastic damage based on a continuum damage variable, on the effective stress concept and on thermodynamics is derived. The damage is linear with equivalent strain and shows a large influence of triaxiality by means of a damage equivalent stress. Identification for several metals is made by means of elasticity modulus change induced by damage. A comparison with the McClintock and Rice-Tracey models and with some experiments is presented for the influence of triaxiality on the strain to rupture.

A continuous damage mechanics model for ductile fracture

Computational modelling of impact damage in brittle materials

In the usual local finite element analysis, strain softening causes spurious mesh sensitivity and incorrect convergence when the element is refined to vanishing size. In a previous continuum formulation, these incorrect features were overcome by the imbricate nonlocal continuum, which, however, introduced some unnecessary computational complications due to the fact that all response was treated as nonlocal. The key idea of the present nonlocal damage theory is to subject to nonlocal treatment only those variables that control strain softening, and to treat the elastic part of the strain as local. The continuum damage mechanics formulation, convenient for separating the nonlocal treatment of damage from the local treatment of elastic behavior, is adopted in the present work. The only required modification is to replace the usual local damage energy release rate with its spatial average over the representative volume of the material whose size is a characteristic of the material. Avoidance of spurious mesh ...

Nonlocal damage theory

1. Elements of the physical mechanisms of deformation and fracture 2. Elements of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics 3. Identification and theological classification of real solids 4. Linear elasticity, thermoelasticity and viscoelasticity 5. Plasticity 6. Viscoplasticity 7. Damage mechanics 8. Crack mechanics.

Mechanics of Solid Materials

1 Phenomenological Aspects of Damage.- 1.1 Physical Nature of the Solid State and Damage.- 1.1.1 Atoms, Elasticity and Damage.- 1.1.2 Slips, Plasticity and Irreversible Strains.- 1.1.3 Scale of the Phenomena of Strain and Damage.- 1.1.4 Different Manifestations of Damage.- 1.1.5 Exercise on Micrographic Observations.- 1.2 Mechanical Representation of Damage.- 1.2.1 One-Dimensional Surface Damage Variable.- 1.2.2 Effective Stress Concept.- 1.2.3 Strain Equivalence Principle.- 1.2.4 Coupling Between Strains and Damage Rupture Criterion Damage Threshold.- 1.2.5 Exercise on the Micromechanics of the Effective Damage Area.- 1.3 Measurement of Damage.- 1.3.1 Direct Measurements.- 1.3.2 Variation of the Elasticity Modulus.- 1.3.3 Variation of the Microhardness.- 1.3.4 Other Methods.- 1.3.5 Exercise on Measurement of Damage by the Stress Amplitude Drop.- 2 Thermodynamics and Micromechanics of Damage.- 2.1 Three-Dimensional Analysis of Isotropic Damage.- 2.1.1 Thermodynamical Variables, State Potential.- 2.1.2 Damage Equivalent Stress Criterion.- 2.1.3 Potential of Dissipation.- 2.1.4 Strain-Damage Coupled Constitutive Equations.- 2.1.5 Exercise on the Identification of Material Parameters.- 2.2 Analysis of Anisotropic Damage.- 2.2.1 Geometrical Definition of a Second-Order Damage Tensor.- 2.2.2 Thermodynamical Definition of a Fourth-Order Damage Tensor.- 2.2.3 Energetic Definition of a Double Scalar Variable.- 2.2.4 Exercise on Anisotropic Damage in Proportional Loading.- 2.3 Micromechanics of Damage.- 2.3.1 Brittle Isotropie Damage.- 2.3.2 Ductile Isotropie Damage.- 2.3.3 Anisotropie Damage.- 2.3.4 Microcrack Closure Effect, Unilateral Conditions.- 2.3.5 Damage Localization and Instability.- 2.3.6 Exercise on the Fiber Bundle System.- 3 Kinetic Laws of Damage Evolution.- 3.1 Unified Formulation of Damage Laws.- 3.1.1 General Properties and Formulation.- 3.1.2 Stored Energy Damage Threshold.- 3.1.3 Three-Dimensional Rupture Criterion.- 3.1.4 Case of Elastic-Perfectly Plastic and Damageable Materials.- 3.1.5 Identification of the Material Parameters.- 3.1.6 Exercise on Identification by a Low Cycle Test.- 3.2 Brittle Damage of Metals, Ceramics, Composites and Concrete.- 3.2.1 Pure Brittle Damage.- 3.2.2 Quasi-brittle Damage.- 3.2.3 Exercise on the Influence of the Triaxiality on Rupture.- 3.3 Ductile and Creep Damage of Metals and Polymers.- 3.3.1 Ductile Damage.- 3.3.2 Exercises on the Fracture Limits in Metal Forming.- 3.3.3 Creep Damage.- 3.3.4 Exercise on Isochronous Creep Damage Curves.- 3.4 Fatigue Damage.- 3.4.1 Low Cycle Fatigue.- 3.4.2 Exercise on Creep Fatigue Interaction.- 3.4.3 High Cycle Fatigue.- 3.4.4 Exercise on Damage Accumulation.- 3.5 Damage of Interfaces.- 3.5.1 Continuity of the Stress and Strain Vectors.- 3.5.2 Strain Surface Energy Release Rate.- 3.5.3 Kinetic Law of Debonding Damage Evolution.- 3.5.4 Simplified Model.- 3.5.5 Exercise on a Debonding Criterion for Interfaces.- 3.6 Table of Material Parameters.- 4 Analysis of Crack Initiation in Structures.- 4.1 Stress-Strain Analysis.- 4.1.1 Stress Concentrations.- 4.1.2 Neuter's Method.- 4.1.3 Finite Element Method.- 4.1.4 Exercise on the Stress Concentration Near a Hole.- 4.2 Uncoupled Analysis of Crack Initiation.- 4.2.1 Determination of the Critical Point(s).- 4.2.2 Integration of the Kinetic Damage Law.- 4.2.3 Exercise on Fatigue Crack Initiation Near a Hole.- 4.3 Locally Coupled Analysis.- 4.3.1 Localization of Damage.- 4.3.2 Postprocessing of Damage Growth.- 4.3.3 Description and Listing of the Postprocessor DAMAGE 90.- 4.3.4 Exercises Using the DAMAGE 90 Postprocessor.- 4.4 Fully Coupled Analysis.- 4.4.1 Initial Strain Hardening and Damage.- 4.4.2 Example of a Calculation Using the Finite Element Method.- 4.4.3 Growth of Damaged Zones and Macrocracks.- 4.4.4 Exercise on Damage Zone at a Crack Tip.- 4.5 Statistical Analysis with Microdefects.- 4.5.1 Initial Defects.- 4.5.2 Case of Brittle Materials.- 4.5.3 Case of Quasi Brittle Materials.- 4.5.4 Case of Ductile Materials.- 4.5.5 Volume Effect.- 4.5.6 Effect of Stress Heterogeneity.- 4.5.7 Exercise on Bending Fatigue of a Beam.- History of International Damage Mechanics Conferences.- Authors and Subject Index.

A Course on Damage Mechanics

Keywords: Rheologie ; Milieux continus ; Plasticite ; Fissuration Reference Record created on 2004-09-07, modified on 2016-08-08

Jean Lemaitre

Papers

Mechanics of Solid Materials

A Course on Damage Mechanics

A continuous damage mechanics model for ductile fracture

Mécanique des matériaux solides

How to use damage mechanics