Discrete vs smeared crack models for concrete fracture: bridging the gap

By R. de Borst, Joris J. C. Remmers, A. Needleman, Marie-Angèle Abellan. 2004

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Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials

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Regularized formulation of the variational brittle fracture with unilateral contact: Numerical experiments (2009, background): “Computational approaches for simulating fracture of solids at the macroscopic scale are commonly classified into two categories (see e.g. de Borst et al., 2004): (i) discrete crack models with an explicit geometric modeling of cracks as surfaces of discontinuities and (ii) smeared crack models,…”
A numerical assessment of phase-field models for brittle and cohesive fracture: Γ-Convergence and stress oscillations (2015, methodology): “Regularisation can be obtained by means of non-local approaches (Pijaudier-Cabot and Bažant, 1987), and more effectively in a finite element context, by gradient approaches (Peerlings et al., 1996), see alsode Borst et al. (2004) andPham and Marigo(2013).”
On the finite element modelling of RC beams shear-strengthened with FRP (2012, background): “[39-41]), but overcoming computational difficulties associated with topology changes due to re-meshing remains a challenge [38].”
Finite-element modeling of intermediate crack debonding in FRP-plated RC beams (2011, methodology): “Attempts have been made to solve this problem by developing automatic re-meshing algorithms (e.g. Yang et al. 2003), but overcoming computational difficulties associated with topology changes due to re-meshing is still a challenge (de Borst et al. 2004).”
Mesh-independent discrete numerical representations of cohesive-zone models (2006, background): “[16–19], and [20,21] for a discussion of smeared vs discrete numerical representations of cohesive-zone models.”