The study of mechanical behavior of the structural steel S400 under quasi- static and dynamic loading has been the subject of this investigation. In oder to obtain different stress - triaxiality conditions the specimens were notched with 1, 1.5, 2 and 3.5 mm notch radius. The results of fractography show as the velocity of tension increases, ductility reduces and a ductile-brittle transition oc...

The paper presents a numerical implementation of a novel approximation scheme for Griffith’s theory of brittle fracture recently proposed in [1]. The total potential energy of a brittle body (including bulk and surface terms) is variationally approximated by a family of functionals, depending on a small penalty parameter ε. The (two-field) approximating functionals have as arguments the displac...

In this paper, a compression-to-tensile load converter device is developed to determine the anisotropic tensile strength of brittle material. A cubic sample with an internal pore was used as the test specimen, and a series of finite element analysis and DDM simulations were performed thereafter to analyse the effect of pore dimensions on the stress concentration, as well as to render a suitable...

The paper reviews a recently developed finite chain model for the weakest-link statistics of strength, lifetime, and size effect of quasi-brittle structures, which are the structures in which the fracture process zone size is not negligible compared to the cross section size. The theory is based on the recognition that the failure probability is simple and clear only on the nanoscale since the ...

We report a novel mode of quasi-static oscillatory crack propagation when a cutting tip of moderately large width is driven through a thin brittle polymer film (Roman [1] , Ghatak [2]). Experiments show that the amplitude and wavelength of the oscillatory crack paths scale linearly with the width of the cutting tip over a wide range of length scales but are independent of the width of the sheet...

Abstract The paper describes a numerical approach to represent cracking along non-pre-established directions, in 2-D structures or domains of quasi-brittle materials such as concrete rock. is developed on the basis FEM with zero-thickness interface elements, combined principles Configurational Mechanics. Interface elements are pre-inserted all potential crack lines mesh, and equipped plasticity...