Simulation of progressive fracturing under dynamic loading conditions

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-138

  Ren, Zoran ^a   Bićanić, Nenad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Localization of deformation; Material rate dependency; Strain softening; Transient dynamic analysis; Viscoplasticity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFORMATION; DYNAMIC LOADS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROCRACKS; PLASTICS; STRAIN RATE; VISCOPLASTICITY;

LOCALIZATION; MATERIAL RATE DEPENDENCY; PERZYNA VISCOPLASTIC MATERIAL LAW; PROGRESSIVE FRACTURING; STRAIN SOFTENING; TRANSIENT DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0031076670     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(199702)13:2<127::AID-CNM44>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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