Pub Date : 2024-11-14DOI: 10.1177/10567895241297313
Alberto Carpinteri, Federico Accornero
The load-displacement softening response of quasi-brittle solids exhibits an unstable structural behavior, which is characterised by a negative slope in the post-peak regime. In severely brittle situations, the post-peak behaviour can show a virtual positive slope, the fracture propagation occurring unexpectedly with a catastrophic loss in the load-carrying capacity. In this case, if the displacement controls the loading process, the curve exhibits a discontinuity and the representative point drops to the lower branch with a negative slope. On the other hand, in order to obtain a stable crack growth, a decrease both in load and in displacement is required. In the last forty years, in-depth study of the so-called snap-back instability was conducted in relation to crack propagation phenomena in quasi-brittle materials. In the present work, the structural response of two brittle-matrix specimens is analysed: the first contains a distribution of collinear micro-cracks, whereas the second presents multiple parallel reinforcing fibres embedded in the matrix. In both cases, it is shown that the structural response presents a discrete number of snap-back instabilities with related peaks and valleys, the crack propagation occurring alternately within the matrix and through the heterogeneities. Thus, the strong analogy between weakened and strengthened zones consists in a multiple snap-back mechanical response, where descending branches of propagating cracks alternate with ascending (linear) branches of arrested cracks.
{"title":"Micro-damage instability mechanisms in composite materials: Cracking coalescence versus fibre ductility and slippage","authors":"Alberto Carpinteri, Federico Accornero","doi":"10.1177/10567895241297313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10567895241297313","url":null,"abstract":"The load-displacement softening response of quasi-brittle solids exhibits an unstable structural behavior, which is characterised by a negative slope in the post-peak regime. In severely brittle situations, the post-peak behaviour can show a virtual positive slope, the fracture propagation occurring unexpectedly with a catastrophic loss in the load-carrying capacity. In this case, if the displacement controls the loading process, the curve exhibits a discontinuity and the representative point drops to the lower branch with a negative slope. On the other hand, in order to obtain a stable crack growth, a decrease both in load and in displacement is required. In the last forty years, in-depth study of the so-called snap-back instability was conducted in relation to crack propagation phenomena in quasi-brittle materials. In the present work, the structural response of two brittle-matrix specimens is analysed: the first contains a distribution of collinear micro-cracks, whereas the second presents multiple parallel reinforcing fibres embedded in the matrix. In both cases, it is shown that the structural response presents a discrete number of snap-back instabilities with related peaks and valleys, the crack propagation occurring alternately within the matrix and through the heterogeneities. Thus, the strong analogy between weakened and strengthened zones consists in a multiple snap-back mechanical response, where descending branches of propagating cracks alternate with ascending (linear) branches of arrested cracks.","PeriodicalId":13837,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Damage Mechanics","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142610207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1177/10567895241297392
Nan Hou, Qiang Guo, Fahmi Zaïri, Huixia Xu, Ning Ding
This paper presents a finite element analysis of steady-state crack propagation in viscoelastic soft solids exhibiting Mullins softening. A cohesive-zone model is employed to simulate the localized processes at the tip of a Mode I crack in materials governed by viscoelastic behavior and damage-induced Mullins effects. The study numerically evaluates the intrinsic dissipation characteristics of typical rubber-like materials, focusing on the influence of key factors such as Mullins damage, relaxation modulus, and relaxation time. The impact of these factors on material toughening is examined, with particular emphasis on their role in crack propagation. The results reveal that crack propagation velocity is highly sensitive to the interplay between energy dissipation mechanisms. Specifically, Mullins damage parameters are shown to increase fracture toughness by raising the local energy release rate threshold at the crack tip. Additionally, the relaxation modulus enhances viscous dissipation, further elevating this threshold and subsequently reducing crack propagation velocity. Interestingly, an inverse relationship between relaxation time and crack propagation velocity is observed. The study provides a detailed analysis of the dissipation mechanisms at the crack tip, offering valuable insights for improving material toughness.
本文对粘弹性软固体中呈现 Mullins 软化的稳态裂纹扩展进行了有限元分析。采用内聚区模型模拟了受粘弹性行为和破坏诱导的 Mullins 效应支配的材料中模式 I 裂纹顶端的局部过程。研究以数值方式评估了典型橡胶类材料的内在耗散特性,重点关注穆林斯损伤、松弛模量和松弛时间等关键因素的影响。研究了这些因素对材料增韧的影响,特别强调了它们在裂纹扩展中的作用。结果表明,裂纹扩展速度对能量耗散机制之间的相互作用非常敏感。具体来说,Mullins 损伤参数可通过提高裂纹尖端的局部能量释放率阈值来增加断裂韧性。此外,松弛模量会增强粘性耗散,进一步提高阈值,从而降低裂纹扩展速度。有趣的是,弛豫时间与裂纹扩展速度之间存在反比关系。该研究详细分析了裂纹尖端的耗散机制,为提高材料韧性提供了宝贵的见解。
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Pub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1177/10567895241292745
Chuangxiang Shi, Songxuan Zhang, Xiaoliang Zhang, Shaofan Li
Concrete is prone to damage under explosive loads, which can cause a large number of casualties and property losses. The concrete fragmentation process during explosion is transient and dynamic, and the experimental measurement of such events is difficult and risky to conduct, and the intermediate explosion process is difficult to observe in the experimental tests. Therefore, the numerical simulation is an ideal method to model and simulate the explosion process of concrete. Different from the traditional finite element method, Peridynamics (PD) method uses the spatial integral equation to replace the traditional local differential equation to solve the fragmentation problem with massive and complex discontinuous patterns. In this study, a peridynamics (PD) model is developed to simulate the failure process of reinforced concrete (RC) structures under radial blasting. Concrete PD models with different cavity sizes and reinforcement conditions were established and calibrated with the experimental data. We find that the crack growth and damage pattern obtained in the peridynamics simulation is consistent with the experiment test results, which verifies the feasibility of peridynamics method as a modeling tool for modeling concrete damage under explosive load and for evaluating anti-explosion performance of RC concrete structures.
{"title":"Peridynamics simulations of the damage of reinforced concrete structures under radial blasting","authors":"Chuangxiang Shi, Songxuan Zhang, Xiaoliang Zhang, Shaofan Li","doi":"10.1177/10567895241292745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10567895241292745","url":null,"abstract":"Concrete is prone to damage under explosive loads, which can cause a large number of casualties and property losses. The concrete fragmentation process during explosion is transient and dynamic, and the experimental measurement of such events is difficult and risky to conduct, and the intermediate explosion process is difficult to observe in the experimental tests. Therefore, the numerical simulation is an ideal method to model and simulate the explosion process of concrete. Different from the traditional finite element method, Peridynamics (PD) method uses the spatial integral equation to replace the traditional local differential equation to solve the fragmentation problem with massive and complex discontinuous patterns. In this study, a peridynamics (PD) model is developed to simulate the failure process of reinforced concrete (RC) structures under radial blasting. Concrete PD models with different cavity sizes and reinforcement conditions were established and calibrated with the experimental data. We find that the crack growth and damage pattern obtained in the peridynamics simulation is consistent with the experiment test results, which verifies the feasibility of peridynamics method as a modeling tool for modeling concrete damage under explosive load and for evaluating anti-explosion performance of RC concrete structures.","PeriodicalId":13837,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Damage Mechanics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142597309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The mechanical properties of fractured rock mass have an important influence on the safety and stability of underground engineering. Grouting is a common way to reinforce fractured rock mass. The uniaxial compression tests of red sandstone specimens with different prefabricated crack inclination angles before and after grouting were carried out. Based on the load-deformation data and synchronous image acquisition, the mechanical properties, crack propagation law and failure mode of the specimens before and after grouting were studied. The results show that the peak strength and elastic modulus of the ungrouted specimen increase with the increase of the inclination angle of the prefabricated crack. Compared with the ungrouted specimen, grouting can significantly improve the peak strength and elastic modulus of the specimen. The cracks of the ungrouted specimen mainly initiate from the tip of the prefabricated crack, and the cracks of the grouting specimen mainly initiate from the upper and lower surfaces of the specimen and the far field. Based on the macroscopic and microscopic damage theory, the constitutive model of grouting rock mass is proposed. By comparing with the experimental data, the rationality of the constitutive model is verified.
{"title":"Experimental and theoretical model study on grouting reinforcement effect of fractured rock mass","authors":"Hui Wang, Hairong Yu, Xiaotong Zhang, Hongyu Zhuo, Jitao Jia, Haosong Wang, Hongyuan Huai","doi":"10.1177/10567895241297699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10567895241297699","url":null,"abstract":"The mechanical properties of fractured rock mass have an important influence on the safety and stability of underground engineering. Grouting is a common way to reinforce fractured rock mass. The uniaxial compression tests of red sandstone specimens with different prefabricated crack inclination angles before and after grouting were carried out. Based on the load-deformation data and synchronous image acquisition, the mechanical properties, crack propagation law and failure mode of the specimens before and after grouting were studied. The results show that the peak strength and elastic modulus of the ungrouted specimen increase with the increase of the inclination angle of the prefabricated crack. Compared with the ungrouted specimen, grouting can significantly improve the peak strength and elastic modulus of the specimen. The cracks of the ungrouted specimen mainly initiate from the tip of the prefabricated crack, and the cracks of the grouting specimen mainly initiate from the upper and lower surfaces of the specimen and the far field. Based on the macroscopic and microscopic damage theory, the constitutive model of grouting rock mass is proposed. By comparing with the experimental data, the rationality of the constitutive model is verified.","PeriodicalId":13837,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Damage Mechanics","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142598142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1177/10567895241292744
Tianhong Yu, Wenxuan Qi, Elena Sitnikova, Shuguang Li
A novel damage evolution model for unidirectional (UD) composites is established in this paper in the context of continuum damage mechanics (CDM). It addresses matrix cracking and it is to be applied along with the damage representation established previously. The concept of damage driving force is employed based on the Helmholtz free energy. It is shown that the damage driving force can be partitioned into three parts, resembling closely three conventional modes of fracture, respectively. A damage evolution law is derived accordingly based on the newly obtained expressions of the damage driving force. The fully rationalised Tsai-Wu criterion is employed in the model for predicting the initiation of matrix cracking damage and fibre failure, assisted with the rationalised maximum stress criterion for identifying the damage modes. A mechanism is introduced to describe the unloading behaviour as a part of the proposed model. The predictions were validated against experimental results, showing good agreement with the experiments and demonstrating the capability and effectiveness of the proposed model.
{"title":"A novel continuum damage evolution model based on the concept of damage driving force for unidirectional composites","authors":"Tianhong Yu, Wenxuan Qi, Elena Sitnikova, Shuguang Li","doi":"10.1177/10567895241292744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10567895241292744","url":null,"abstract":"A novel damage evolution model for unidirectional (UD) composites is established in this paper in the context of continuum damage mechanics (CDM). It addresses matrix cracking and it is to be applied along with the damage representation established previously. The concept of damage driving force is employed based on the Helmholtz free energy. It is shown that the damage driving force can be partitioned into three parts, resembling closely three conventional modes of fracture, respectively. A damage evolution law is derived accordingly based on the newly obtained expressions of the damage driving force. The fully rationalised Tsai-Wu criterion is employed in the model for predicting the initiation of matrix cracking damage and fibre failure, assisted with the rationalised maximum stress criterion for identifying the damage modes. A mechanism is introduced to describe the unloading behaviour as a part of the proposed model. The predictions were validated against experimental results, showing good agreement with the experiments and demonstrating the capability and effectiveness of the proposed model.","PeriodicalId":13837,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Damage Mechanics","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142561879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-25DOI: 10.1177/10567895241292763
Liu Jin, Bo Lu, Wenxuan Yu, Xiuli Du
This paper applied a thermal-mechanical sequential coupled mesoscopic simulation method to explore the axial compression performance and the corresponding size effect of Reinforced Concrete Columns confined by Stirrups (i.e., RCCS) at low temperatures, with considering the interaction between concrete meso-components and steel bars as well as the low-temperature effect of mechanical parameters. Based on the heat conduction analysis, the axial compression mechanical failure behavior of RCCS with four structural sizes (i.e., 267 × 267 × 801, 400 × 400 × 1200, 600 × 600 × 1800 and 800 × 800 × 2400 mm) and two stirrup ratios (i.e., 1.26% and 2.89%) at different temperatures (i.e., T = 20, −30, −60 and −90°C) was subsequently simulated. The effects of temperature, structural size and volume stirrup ratio on axial compression properties were quantitatively discussed. The results showed that the peak strength of RCCS increased with the decreasing temperature, and the smaller-sized RCCS showed a stronger effect of low-temperature enhancement. Both the residual strength and displacement ductility coefficient decreased with the decreasing temperature. The peak strength, residual strength and displacement ductility coefficient of RCCS decreased with the increasing structural size, showing obvious size effects. The size effect on peak strength increased with the decreasing temperature, (the maximum increase was nearly 140%), but the size effect on displacement ductility coefficient decreased (the maximum decrease was nearly 70%). The peak strength, residual strength and ductility were enhanced with the increasing volume stirrup ratio, which was helpful to reduce the influence of size effect. Finally, an improved size effect theoretical model was proposed, which can effectively predict the axial compressive strength of RCCS with different structural sizes and stirrup ratios at room and low temperatures. The present research results can provide reference for the large-scale engineering application of RCCS in low-temperature environments.
{"title":"Size effect modellings of axial compressive failure of RC columns at low temperatures","authors":"Liu Jin, Bo Lu, Wenxuan Yu, Xiuli Du","doi":"10.1177/10567895241292763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10567895241292763","url":null,"abstract":"This paper applied a thermal-mechanical sequential coupled mesoscopic simulation method to explore the axial compression performance and the corresponding size effect of Reinforced Concrete Columns confined by Stirrups (i.e., RCCS) at low temperatures, with considering the interaction between concrete meso-components and steel bars as well as the low-temperature effect of mechanical parameters. Based on the heat conduction analysis, the axial compression mechanical failure behavior of RCCS with four structural sizes (i.e., 267 × 267 × 801, 400 × 400 × 1200, 600 × 600 × 1800 and 800 × 800 × 2400 mm) and two stirrup ratios (i.e., 1.26% and 2.89%) at different temperatures (i.e., T = 20, −30, −60 and −90°C) was subsequently simulated. The effects of temperature, structural size and volume stirrup ratio on axial compression properties were quantitatively discussed. The results showed that the peak strength of RCCS increased with the decreasing temperature, and the smaller-sized RCCS showed a stronger effect of low-temperature enhancement. Both the residual strength and displacement ductility coefficient decreased with the decreasing temperature. The peak strength, residual strength and displacement ductility coefficient of RCCS decreased with the increasing structural size, showing obvious size effects. The size effect on peak strength increased with the decreasing temperature, (the maximum increase was nearly 140%), but the size effect on displacement ductility coefficient decreased (the maximum decrease was nearly 70%). The peak strength, residual strength and ductility were enhanced with the increasing volume stirrup ratio, which was helpful to reduce the influence of size effect. Finally, an improved size effect theoretical model was proposed, which can effectively predict the axial compressive strength of RCCS with different structural sizes and stirrup ratios at room and low temperatures. The present research results can provide reference for the large-scale engineering application of RCCS in low-temperature environments.","PeriodicalId":13837,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Damage Mechanics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142490647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1177/10567895241292748
Lubo Meng, Shan Zhang, Tianbin Li, Tianyi Liu, Haoyu Li
The failure of layered rock after high temperature exposure is a major concern in deep underground engineering projects. This paper proposes an improved Nishihara creep constitutive model that considers damage factors and the bedding angle, which overcomes the shortcomings of the deviation in the description of the conventional Nishihara model in the acceleration stage. The constitutive model is verified by the conventional triaxial creepiest. The theoretical curve has a high degree of fitting with the experimental curve. The experimental results show that a temperature of [Formula: see text] has an obvious influence on the steady creep rate and the creep strain of layered sandstone, and [Formula: see text] can be regarded as the temperature threshold for the long-term strength and change from anisotropic to isotropic of layered sandstone. The irreversible melting mixing phenomenon at the boundary of mineral particles with increasing temperature is the mechanism by which different treatment temperatures affect the anisotropy degree of layered rock.
{"title":"Study on the creep constitutive model of layered rockconsidering anisotropic and damage factors after hightemperature exposure","authors":"Lubo Meng, Shan Zhang, Tianbin Li, Tianyi Liu, Haoyu Li","doi":"10.1177/10567895241292748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10567895241292748","url":null,"abstract":"The failure of layered rock after high temperature exposure is a major concern in deep underground engineering projects. This paper proposes an improved Nishihara creep constitutive model that considers damage factors and the bedding angle, which overcomes the shortcomings of the deviation in the description of the conventional Nishihara model in the acceleration stage. The constitutive model is verified by the conventional triaxial creepiest. The theoretical curve has a high degree of fitting with the experimental curve. The experimental results show that a temperature of [Formula: see text] has an obvious influence on the steady creep rate and the creep strain of layered sandstone, and [Formula: see text] can be regarded as the temperature threshold for the long-term strength and change from anisotropic to isotropic of layered sandstone. The irreversible melting mixing phenomenon at the boundary of mineral particles with increasing temperature is the mechanism by which different treatment temperatures affect the anisotropy degree of layered rock.","PeriodicalId":13837,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Damage Mechanics","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142487450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-21DOI: 10.1177/10567895241292750
Yuezong Yang, Zhushan Shao, Nannan Zhao, Kui Wu
The deterioration of rock material properties induced by seepage pressure is a serious danger to the stability of geotechnical engineering. The formation and propagation of microcracks is the primary cause of rock macro failure. This work proposes an damage-based analytical model to assess the impact of seepage pressure on the macro mechanical behaviors of rocks from the standpoint of micro fracture. A wing crack model serves as the foundation for the analytical model. This model has taken into account the impact of seepage pressure on the initiation and growth of wing cracks. The constitutive relation is constructed based on the equivalency connection of damage defined by strain and wing crack length. A comparison between the analytical results and the reported experimental data confirms the reasonableness of the analytical model. Investigations are conducted on the relationship between the macro mechanical behavior of rocks and micro fracture under various seepage pressures, confining pressures, and microscopic parameters. The findings demonstrate that the cracks growth is initially steady before becoming unstable. The growing process of wing cracks stops when they connect with one another, and friction between the crack surfaces takes over. The initiation and growth of wing cracks may be aided by the seepage pressure. As the wing crack propagates, the seepage pressure effect initially increases, then decreases, and eventually has practically no impact. The influence of seepage pressure on rock macro mechanical behavior is that with seepage pressure increasing, the initiation stress and peak stress decrease, but the residual stress is basically a constant. The rock micro fracture process is significantly influenced by confining pressures and microscopic factors, which in turn affect the macro mechanical behavior. The study’s findings offer a micro fracture foundation for comprehending how seepage pressure affects the macro mechanical behaviors of rocks.
{"title":"A damage-based analytical model to evaluate seepage pressure effect on rock macro mechanical behaviors from the perspective of micro-fracture","authors":"Yuezong Yang, Zhushan Shao, Nannan Zhao, Kui Wu","doi":"10.1177/10567895241292750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10567895241292750","url":null,"abstract":"The deterioration of rock material properties induced by seepage pressure is a serious danger to the stability of geotechnical engineering. The formation and propagation of microcracks is the primary cause of rock macro failure. This work proposes an damage-based analytical model to assess the impact of seepage pressure on the macro mechanical behaviors of rocks from the standpoint of micro fracture. A wing crack model serves as the foundation for the analytical model. This model has taken into account the impact of seepage pressure on the initiation and growth of wing cracks. The constitutive relation is constructed based on the equivalency connection of damage defined by strain and wing crack length. A comparison between the analytical results and the reported experimental data confirms the reasonableness of the analytical model. Investigations are conducted on the relationship between the macro mechanical behavior of rocks and micro fracture under various seepage pressures, confining pressures, and microscopic parameters. The findings demonstrate that the cracks growth is initially steady before becoming unstable. The growing process of wing cracks stops when they connect with one another, and friction between the crack surfaces takes over. The initiation and growth of wing cracks may be aided by the seepage pressure. As the wing crack propagates, the seepage pressure effect initially increases, then decreases, and eventually has practically no impact. The influence of seepage pressure on rock macro mechanical behavior is that with seepage pressure increasing, the initiation stress and peak stress decrease, but the residual stress is basically a constant. The rock micro fracture process is significantly influenced by confining pressures and microscopic factors, which in turn affect the macro mechanical behavior. The study’s findings offer a micro fracture foundation for comprehending how seepage pressure affects the macro mechanical behaviors of rocks.","PeriodicalId":13837,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Damage Mechanics","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142486812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-17DOI: 10.1177/10567895241292749
Yuan Fang, Xu Yazhou
Fretting fatigue often occurs in the interfaces between components, subjected to complex multi-axial load states and high stress gradients at the contact edge region. For the prediction of fretting fatigue crack initiation and in-depth understanding of the crack initiation mechanism, it is essential to investigate the damage mechanisms across various scales and explore the underlying scale coupling mechanisms. By introducing a power-law based scale coupling relationship, a two-scale model of fretting fatigue crack initiation life is proposed by combining macroscopic continuum damage mechanics (CDM) with microscopic crystal plastic finite element method (CPFEM). The simulation results indicate that the predicted fretting fatigue initiation life shows better accuracy than the result predicted by single-scale CDM model. In case of low stress level the rate of accumulated dissipation energy can be clearly divided into two stages with turning points, whereas it exhibits a relatively uniform damage process under high stress level. Moreover, the proposed two-scale model partly provides physical explanation for fretting fatigue crack initiation based on the information from the microscale.
{"title":"Accumulated crystal plasticity dissipation energy driven continuum damage two-scale model for fretting fatigue initiation life","authors":"Yuan Fang, Xu Yazhou","doi":"10.1177/10567895241292749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10567895241292749","url":null,"abstract":"Fretting fatigue often occurs in the interfaces between components, subjected to complex multi-axial load states and high stress gradients at the contact edge region. For the prediction of fretting fatigue crack initiation and in-depth understanding of the crack initiation mechanism, it is essential to investigate the damage mechanisms across various scales and explore the underlying scale coupling mechanisms. By introducing a power-law based scale coupling relationship, a two-scale model of fretting fatigue crack initiation life is proposed by combining macroscopic continuum damage mechanics (CDM) with microscopic crystal plastic finite element method (CPFEM). The simulation results indicate that the predicted fretting fatigue initiation life shows better accuracy than the result predicted by single-scale CDM model. In case of low stress level the rate of accumulated dissipation energy can be clearly divided into two stages with turning points, whereas it exhibits a relatively uniform damage process under high stress level. Moreover, the proposed two-scale model partly provides physical explanation for fretting fatigue crack initiation based on the information from the microscale.","PeriodicalId":13837,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Damage Mechanics","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142448782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1177/10567895241277657
Hui Wang, Zhichao Xu, Hongyuan Huai, Yunteng Yin, Jiacong Zeng, Zhihao Du, Hang Zhou
In order to study the effects of crack inclination angle and loading rate on rock mechanical properties, creep characteristics, and failure characteristics. Taking homogeneous red sandstone with different fracture angles as the research object, uniaxial compression tests and uniaxial compression creep tests were conducted at different loading rates. The results showed that under the same fracture angle, the loading rate was positively correlated with the peak strength, elastic modulus, instantaneous strain, creep strain, and steady-state creep rate of the sample, while negatively correlated with the peak strain. At the same loading rate, the mechanical properties and creep properties of the sample were controlled by the crack inclination angle α. With the increase of α, the peak strength, peak strain, instantaneous strain, creep strain and steady-state creep rate decreased first and then increased, and the elastic modulus increased. On the basis of rock creep testing, it is also important to establish a creep model that conforms to the actual test situation for studying rock creep characteristics. However, many models currently used cannot accurately describe the three stages of rock creep, especially the accelerated creep stage. Therefore, based on Burgers elements, this paper introduces plastic damage bodies based on damage rates and software components based on fractional calculus, A new creep model was obtained and its rationality was verified through experimental results. The results showed that the fit between the model and experimental data was above 0.97, indicating that the model can better describe the three stages of rock creep, especially reflecting the non-linear characteristics of the accelerated creep stage.
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