Catastrophic rupture induced damage coalescence in heterogeneous brittle media

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 163, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1847-1865

  Rong, Feng ^a   Wang, Haiying ^a   Xia, Mengfen ^a,b   Ke, Fujiu ^a,c   Bai, Yilong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Catastrophic rupture; Damage coalescence; Damage evolution; FEM; Heterogeneity; Stress redistribution

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE MEDIUM; DAMAGE MECHANICS; FAILURE MECHANISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RUPTURE; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 33750338546     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-006-0100-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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