Un modèle thermo-plastique couplé à l'endommagement pour le béton à hautes températures

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahid Nechnech ◽  
Jean-Marie Reynouard ◽  
Fekri Meftah

In this paper a new thermoplastic damage model for plain concrete subjected to combined thermal and cyclic loading is developed using the concept of plastic-work hardening and stiffness degradation in continuum damage mechanics. Two damage variables are used: one for mechanical action and the other one for thermal action. Further, thermomechanical interaction strains have been introduced to describe the influence of mechanical loading on the physical process of thermal expansion of concrete. The constitutive relations for elastoplastic responses are decoupled from the degradation damage responses by using the effective stress concept. This method provides advantages in the numerical implementation. Efficient computational algorithms for the proposed model are subsequently explored and performance of this model is demonstrated with numerical examples.Key words: damage theory, plasticity, thermal, unilateral phenomenon, thermomechanical interaction.

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
J. J. C. Pituba ◽  
W. M. Pereira Júnior

This work deals with an improvement of an anisotropic damage model in order to analyze reinforced concrete structures submitted to reversal loading. The original constitutive model is based on the fundamental hypothesis of energy equivalence between real and continuous media following the concepts of the Continuum Damage Mechanics. The concrete is assumed as an initial elastic isotropic medium presenting anisotropy, permanent strains and bimodularity induced by damage evolution. In order to take into account the bimodularity, two damage tensors governing the rigidity in tension or compression regimes are introduced. However, the original model is not capable to simulate the influence of the previous damage processes in compression regimes. In order to avoid this problem, some conditions are introduced to simulate the damage unilateral effect. It has noted that the damage model is agreement with to micromechanical theory conditions when dealing to unilateral effect in concrete material. Finally, the proposed model is applied in the analyses of reinforced concrete framed structures submitted to reversal loading. These numerical applications show the good performance of the model and its potentialities to simulate practical problems in structural engineering.


2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (20) ◽  
pp. 1473-1486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Zhou ◽  
Yi Sun ◽  
Boyang Chen ◽  
Tong-Earn Tay

The sizes effects on the strengths of open-hole fibre-reinforced composite laminates subjected to tensile loading (OHT) have been investigated widely. However, little attention has been paid to the influence of material orthotropy. This paper presents a progressive damage model for the model failure of notched laminates under tensile loading based on continuum damage mechanics and cohesive elements. The effects of orthotropy on the failure of notched laminates with seven different ply sequences are investigated by our proposed model. The prediction results adopting the Hoffman and Pinho failure criterions to determine matrix damage initiation are compared with the results of experiments. Our proposed models are able to predict the strong influence of orthotropy on strengths of open-hole laminate under tension, and model using Pinho criterion can predict the open-hole tension strength most accurately.


2006 ◽  
Vol 324-325 ◽  
pp. 579-582
Author(s):  
Jun Feng Zhang ◽  
Tao Qi

A 3D anisotropic elastoplastic-damage model was presented based on continuum damage mechanics theory. In this model, the tensor decomposition technique is employed. Combined with the plastic yield rule and damage evolution, the stress tensor in incremental format is obtained. The derivate eigenmodes in the proposed model are assumed to be related with the uniaxial behavior of the rock material. Each eigenmode has a corresponding damage variable due to the fact that damage is a function of the magnitude of the eigenstrain. Within an eigenmodes, different damage evolution can be used for tensile and compressive loadings. This model was also developed into finite element code in explicit format, and the code was integrated into the well-known computational environment ABAQUS using the ABAQUS/Explicit Solver. Numerical simulation of an uniaxial compressive test for a rock sample is used to examine the performance of the proposed model, and the progressive failure process of the rock sample is unveiled.


1991 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dusan Krajcinovic ◽  
Michal Basista ◽  
Dragoslav Sumarac

The paper suggests a phenomenological damage theory for perfectly brittle response of solids. The theory is based on the micromechanics of brittle deformation processes. The inelastic change of the compliance is identified as the flux and a properly averaged energy release rate as the affinity. The paper identifies conditions under which the damage potential exists. The proposed model is illustrated on the examples of plain concrete specimens subjected to uniaxial tension and compression.


Author(s):  
Theddeus Tochukwu Akano

Normal oral food ingestion processes such as mastication would not have been possible without the teeth. The human teeth are subjected to many cyclic loadings per day. This, in turn, exerts forces on the teeth just like an engineering material undergoing the same cyclic loading. Over a period, there will be the creation of microcracks on the teeth that might not be visible ab initio. The constant formation of these microcracks weakens the teeth structure and foundation that result in its fracture. Therefore, the need to predict the fatigue life for human teeth is essential. In this paper, a continuum damage mechanics (CDM) based model is employed to evaluate the fatigue life of the human teeth. The material characteristic of the teeth is captured within the framework of the elastoplastic model. By applying the damage evolution equivalence, a mathematical formula is developed that describes the fatigue life in terms of the stress amplitude. Existing experimental data served as a guide as to the completeness of the proposed model. Results as a function of age and tubule orientation are presented. The outcomes produced by the current study have substantial agreement with the experimental results when plotted on the same axes. There is a notable difference in the number of cycles to failure as the tubule orientation increases. It is also revealed that the developed model could forecast for any tubule orientation and be adopted for both young and old teeth.


2012 ◽  
Vol 498 ◽  
pp. 42-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Benbelaid ◽  
B. Bezzazi ◽  
A. Bezazi

This paper considers damage development mechanisms in cross-ply laminates using an accurate numerical model. Under static three points bending, two modes of damage progression in cross-ply laminates are predominated: transverse cracking and delamination. However, this second mode of damage is not accounted in our numerical model. After a general review of experimental approaches of observed behavior of laminates, the focus is laid on predicting laminate behavior based on continuum damage mechanics. In this study, a continuum damage model based on ply failure criteria is presented, which is initially proposed by Ladevèze. To reveal the effect of different stacking sequence of the laminate; such as thickness and the interior or exterior disposition of the 0° and 90° oriented layers in the laminate, an equivalent damage accumulation which cover all ply failure mechanisms has been predicted. However, the solution algorithm using finite element analysis which implements progressive failure analysis is summarized. The results of the numerical computation have been justified by the previous published experimental observations of the authors.


2008 ◽  
Vol 385-387 ◽  
pp. 893-896
Author(s):  
Kyung Woo Lee ◽  
Hyun Uk Kim ◽  
Sang Wook Park ◽  
Jung Suk Lee ◽  
Kwang Ho Kim ◽  
...  

This study focused on the determination of fracture toughness by instrumented indentation technique. A theoretical model to estimate the fracture toughness of ductile materials is proposed and used to verify those results. Modeling of IIT to evaluate fracture toughness is based on two main ideas; the energy input up to characteristic fracture initiation point during indentation was correlated with material’s resistance to crack initiation and growth, and this characteristic fracture initiation point was determined by concepts of continuum damage mechanics. The estimated fracture toughness values obtained from the indentation technique showed good agreement with those from conventional fracture toughness tests based on CTOD. In addition, we confirmed that the proposed model can be also applied in the brittle material through modification of void volume fraction.


2017 ◽  
Vol 140 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ganjiani

In this paper, an elastoplastic-damage constitutive model is presented. The formulation is cast within the framework of continuum damage mechanics (CDM) by means of the internal variable theory of thermodynamics. The damage is assumed as a tensor type variable and its evolution is developed based on the energy equivalence hypothesis. In order to discriminate the plastic and damage deformation, two surfaces named as plastic and damage are introduced. The damage surface has been developed so that it can model the nonlinear variation of damage. The details of the model besides its implicit integration algorithm are presented. The model is implemented as a user-defined subroutine user-defined material (UMAT) in the abaqus/standard finite element program for numerical simulation purposes. In the regard of investigating the capability of model, the shear and tensile tests are experimentally conducted, and corresponding results are compared with those predicted numerically. These comparisons are also accomplished for several experiments available in the literature. Satisfactory agreement between experiments and numerical predictions provided by the model implies the capability of the model to predict the plastic deformation as well as damage evolution in the materials.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
RYOMA AOKI ◽  
RYO HIGUCHI ◽  
TOMOHIRO YOKOZEKI

This study aims to conduct a fatigue simulation for predicting the stiffness degradation of thin-ply composite laminates with several ply thicknesses. For the simulation, a fatigue evolution model of intra-laminar damage in thin-ply composite laminates considering the effect of ply thickness was proposed. The intra-laminar damage evolution was modeled using the continuum damage mechanics model and the static and fatigue evolution law were formulated by relating the transverse crack density to the damage variable. The finite element simulation using the proposed model was conducted to predict the stiffness degradation of the laminates as a function of the number of loading cycles. The simulation results show that the experimental data can be reproduced by using the proposed fatigue model.


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