Nonlocal Microplane Model for Fracture, Damage, and Size Effect in Structures
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 116, Issue 11
Abstract
A generalized microplane model, which was previously developed to describe tensile cracking and nonlinear triaxial response of brittle‐plastic materials in compression and shear, is implemented in a finite element code. To limit localization instabilities due to strain softening and the consequent spurious mesh‐sensitivity, the recently proposed concept of nonlocal continuum with local strain (nonlocal damage) is adopted and combined with the microplane model. An effective numerical algorithm permitting large loading steps is developed by applying the idea of exponential algorithms previously used for creep. Problems due to non‐symmetry of the tangential stiffness matrix are avoided by using the initial elastic stiffness matrix in the incremental force‐displacement relations. Numerical results demonstrate that the microplane model, which previously has allowed an excellent description of the test data on nonlinear triaxial behavior of concrete as well as unidirectional and multidirectional crack or crack shear, is endowed (in its nonlocal generalization) with the capability of also modeling tensile fracture. The model yields the correct transitional size effect observed in concrete and agrees with the recently proposed size effect law. The formulation is applicable to brittle‐plastic materials in general.
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 116 • Issue 11 • November 1990
Pages: 2485 - 2505
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