A crack-tracking technique for localized damage in quasi-brittle materials

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2431-2450

  Cervera, Miguel ^a   Pelà, Luca ^b   Clemente, Roberto ^a   Roca, Pere ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING CIMNE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuum damage model; Crack tracking technique; Quasi brittle materials; Strain localization; Tensile cracking

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM DAMAGE MODEL; QUASIBRITTLE MATERIAL; STRAIN LOCALIZATIONS; TENSILE CRACKING; TRACKING TECHNIQUES;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; BRITTLENESS; CONTINUUM DAMAGE MECHANICS;

CRACKS;

EID: 77955091533     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2010.06.013     Document Type: Article

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