A non-linear cohesive zone model for low-cycle fatigue of quasi-brittle materials

3D Cohesive Investigation on Branching for Brittle Materials

The experiments on dynamic crack propagation in PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate) and in soda lime glass conducted by Fineberg and Sharon (see [1-2] and quoted references) during the last decade pointed out some characteristic features of the microbranching instability in brittle materials. They observed the existence of a critical velocity for the onset of the microbranching; described the relati...

Multiscale failure modelling of quasi - brittle materials

A cohesive model of fatigue crack growth

We investigate the use of cohesive theories of fracture, in conjunction with the explicit resolution of the near-tip plastic fields and the enforcement of closure as a contact constraint, for the purpose of fatiguelife prediction. An important characteristic of the cohesive laws considered here is that they exhibit unloadingreloading hysteresis. This feature has the important consequence of pre...

A phenomenological cohesive model of ferroelectric fatigue

We develop a phenomenological model of electro-mechanical ferroelectric fatigue based on a ferroelectric cohesive law that couples mechanical displacement and electric-potential discontinuity to mechanical tractions and surface-charge density. The ferroelectric cohesive law exhibits a monotonic envelope and loading-unloading hysteresis. The model is applicable whenever the changes in properties...

A Cohesive Zone Model for Crack Growth Simulation in AISI 304 Steel

Stable ductile crack growth in 3 mm thick AISI 304 stainless steel specimens has been investigated experimentally and numerically. Multi-linear Isotropic Hardening method coupled with the Von-Mises yield criterion was adopted for modeling elasto-plastic behavior of the material. Mode-I CT fracture specimens have been tested to generate experimental load-displacement-crack growth data during sta...