Papers by Keyword: Smeared Cracking

Abstract: The evolution of crack models based on fracture mechanics is reviewed. The brittle cracking model in Abaqucs is used to simulate the machining process of Al₂O₃. The result shows that it’s appropriate to simulate the machining process of ceramics with fracture energy cracking criterion and post-failure constitutive relation in a smeared cracking representation. Although more works are needed in the future to resolve the mesh sensitivity. The material removal mechanism of ceramics is confirmed to be the brittle fracture regime.

Abstract: The cohesive crack model and the crack band model are two convenient approaches in concrete fracture analysis. They can describe in full the fracture process by the different manner: The entire fracture process zone is lumped into the crack line and is characterized in the form of a stress-displacement law which exhibits softening; or the inelastic deformations in the fracture process zone are smeared over a band of a certain width, imagined to exist in front of the main crack. The correlation of the two models is developed based on a characteristic width of crack band. The analysis shows that they can yield about the same results if the crack opening displacement in the cohesive crack model is taken as the fracturing strain that is accumulated over the width of the crack band model. Some basic problems are also discussed in finite element analysis.