Material force approach for fracture

Research topics

• Linear elasticity for fracture formulatio
• Energetic driving forces in a homogeneous body containing mostly a crack singularity
• Material force as thermodynamic crack driving forces
• Discontinuous crack propagation using r- and h- adaptive mesh refinment
• Application of the approach un different simulations of notched speciemens for linear elastic homogeneous concrete materials.

Funding

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

In collaboration with

• ANSYS, Inc. (http://www.ansys.com/)

Publication

Qinami, A.; Kaliske, M.: Crack Propagation for the material force approachusing Adaptive meshing. PAMM, 2016.