On the existence of representative volumes for softening quasi-brittle materials - A failure zone averaging scheme

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 199, Issue 45-48, 2010, Pages 3028-3038

  Phu Nguyen, Vinh ^a   Lloberas Valls, Oriol ^a   Stroeven, Martijn ^a   Johannes Sluys, Lambertus ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Homogenization; Multiscale; Quasi brittle material; Representative volume element (RVE); Softening

Indexed keywords

HOMOGENIZATION; MULTISCALES; QUASIBRITTLE MATERIAL; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; SOFTENING;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; MATERIALS; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

BRITTLENESS;

EID: 78549290275     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2010.06.018     Document Type: Article

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