Numerical simulation of chaotic and self-organizing damage in brittle disordered materials

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 189-201

  Van Mier, Jan G M ^a   Chiaia, Bernardino M ^a,b   Vervuurt, Adri ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; TENSILE TESTING;

DELFT LATTICE MODELS; GLOBAL FRACTAL DIMENSION;

BRITTLENESS;

EID: 0031098142     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(96)01128-0     Document Type: Article

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