Damage mechanics

About: Damage mechanics is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3366 publications have been published within this topic receiving 79868 citations.

Mechanics of Solid Materials

Abstract: 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.

A Course on Damage Mechanics

Abstract: 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 continuous damage mechanics model for ductile fracture

Abstract: 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.

Finite element interface models for the delamination analysis of laminated composites: mechanical and computational issues

Abstract: The finite element analysis of delamination in laminated composites is addressed using interface elements and an interface damage law. The principles of linear elastic fracture mechanics are indirectly used by equating, in the case of single-mode delamination, the area underneath the traction/relative displacement curve to the critical energy release rate of the mode under examination. For mixed-mode delamination an interaction model is used which can fulfil various fracture criteria proposed in the literature. It is then shown that the model can be recast in the framework of a more general damage mechanics theory. Numerical results are presented for the analyses of a double cantilever beam specimen and for a problem involving multiple delamination for which comparisons are made with experimental results. Issues related with the numerical solution of the non-linear problem of the delamination are discussed, such as the influence of the interface strength on the convergence properties and the final results, the optimal choice of the iterative matrix in the predictor and the number of integration points in the interface elements. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.