A Comparison of Cohesive Crack Model and Crack Band Model in Concrete Fracture

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.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 170-173)
• Pages: 3375-3380
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.170-173.3375
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Liang Wu, Ze Li, Shang Huang
• Keywords: Cohesive Crack Model, Concrete, Crack Band Model, Finite Element Method (FEM), Fracture, Smeared Cracking

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