A traction-displacement relationship that may be embedded into a cohesive zone model for microscale problems of intergranular fracture is extracted from atomistic molecular-dynamics simulations. A molecular-dynamics model for crack propagation under steady-state conditions is developed to analyze intergranular fracture along a flat Σ99 [1 1 0] symmetric tilt grain boundary in aluminum. Under hy...

1 The Effect of Cohesive-Law Parameters on Mixed-Mode Fracture R. B. Sills and M. D. Thouless Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Materials Science & Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125, USA Abstract Cohesive-zone models of fracture provide a framework that allows a smooth transition between a strength-based approach to fracture and an energy-based approac...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Concrete (E) Fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) (E) Constitutive relationship (C) Cohesive fracture (C) Fracture energy (C) A simple, effective, and practical constitutive model for cohesive fracture of fiber reinforced concrete is proposed by differentiating the aggregate bridging zone and the fiber bridging zone. The aggregate bridging zone is related to the total...

We investigate quasi-explicit time-integration schemes for solving dynamic fracture problems with set-valued cohesive zone models. These schemes combine a central difference time-integration scheme and a partially implicit and lumped treatment of the cohesive forces. At each time step, the displacements of the nodes in the interior of the domain are computed in an explicit way, while the displa...

This paper deals with the application of Cohesive Zone Model (CZM) concepts to study mode I fracture in adhesive bonded joints. In particular, an intrinsic piece-wise linear cohesive surface relation is used in order to model fracture in a pre-cracked bonded Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) specimen. Finite element implementation of the CZM is accomplished by means of the user element (UEL) feature...

In this work, a novel multiscale cohesive zone model is proposed, in which the bulk material is modeled as a local quasi-continuum medium that obeys the Cauchy–Born rule while the cohesive force and displacement relations inside the cohesive zone are governed by a coarse grained depletion potential. The interface depletion potential is constructed based on the Derjaguin approximation of nonloca...