Large-scale topological changes play a key role in capturing the fine debris of fracturing virtual brittle material. Real-world, tough fractures have dynamic branching behaviour but numerical simulation this phenomena is notoriously challenging. In order to robustly capture these visual characteristics, we simulate fracture by combining elastodynamic continuum mechanical models with rigid-body ...

Materials like concrete are widely used for civil engineering constructions, due to some well-known benefits such as low cost, wide applicability, and general availability. The structural part is usually loaded in combined load referred mixed mode (normal I shear II). Generally, concrete, the quasi-brittle material, gets more brittle its strength increases. experiments already measured on mater...

BASED on vast experience watching the fruit of my hard work fall apart time and again, I feel highly qualified to discuss the manner in which systems break. In particular, the goal of this paper is to define and analyze systems which exhibit brittle behavior. This behavior is characterized by a sudden and steep decline in performance as system state changes as shown by point D along curve Ph in...

The aim of the present paper is a systematic elab1 oration of a three dimensional finite element analysis tool for 2 discontinuous fracture in brittle solids. Brittle or quasi-brittle 3 fracture usually occurs when a material reaches the limit of its 4 strength and no plastic deformation has been observed prior 5 to failure. In the present approach, this kind of failure is char6 acterized by th...