Modeling fracture in brittle materials with inertia effects using the phase field method

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Surya Shekar K. Reddy ◽  
Rajagopal Amirtham ◽  
Junuthula N. Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Phase Field ◽  
Brittle Materials ◽  
Field Method ◽  
Phase Field Method ◽  
Inertia Effects ◽  
Modeling Fracture

scholarly journals Discussion of hardening effects on phase field models for fracture

2021 ◽  
Vol 349 ◽  
pp. 02001
Author(s):  
Aris Tsakmakis ◽  
Michael Vormwald
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Mechanics ◽  
Phase Field ◽  
Fatigue Cracks ◽  
Brittle Materials ◽  
Additional Term ◽  
Field Method ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Phase Field Method ◽  
Isotropic Hardening ◽  
Phase Field Models

Phase field models have been successfully applied in recent years to a variety of fracture mechanics problems, such as quasi-brittle materials, dynamic fracture mechanics, fatigue cracks in brittle materials, as well as ductile materials. The basic idea of the method is to introduce an additional term in the energy functional describing the state of material bodies. A new state variable is included in this term, the so-called phase field, and enables to determine the surface energy of the crack. This approach allows to model phenomena such as crack initiation, crack branching and buckling of cracks, as well as the modelling of the crack front in three-dimensional geometries, without further assumptions. There is yet no systematic investigation of the influence of strain hardening on crack development within the phase field method. Thus, the aim of the paper is to provide an analysis of the effect of kinematic and isotropic hardening on the evolution of the phase field variable.

Theoretical phase-field-method-based model of the γ phase dissolution of base metals in duplex stainless steels

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 102150
Author(s):  
Dong-Cho Kim ◽  
Tomo Ogura ◽  
Ryosuke Hamada ◽  
Shotaro Yamashita ◽  
Kazuyoshi Saida
Keyword(s):  
Phase Field ◽  
Stainless Steels ◽  
Field Method ◽  
Duplex Stainless Steels ◽  
Phase Field Method ◽  
Base Metals ◽  
Phase Dissolution

scholarly journals Viscoelastic phase-field fracture using the framework of representative crack elements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Yin ◽  
Johannes Storm ◽  
Michael Kaliske
Keyword(s):  
Phase Field ◽  
Consistency Condition ◽  
Field Method ◽  
Anisotropic Elasticity ◽  
Phase Field Method ◽  
Internal Variables ◽  
Crack Model ◽  
Material Degradation ◽  
Discrete Crack ◽  
Deformation State

AbstractThe promising phase-field method has been intensively studied for crack approximation in brittle materials. The realistic representation of material degradation at a fully evolved crack is still one of the main challenges. Several energy split formulations have been postulated to describe the crack evolution physically. A recent approach based on the concept of representative crack elements (RCE) in Storm et al. (The concept of representative crack elements (RCE) for phase-field fracture: anisotropic elasticity and thermo-elasticity. Int J Numer Methods Eng 121:779–805, 2020) introduces a variational framework to derive the kinematically consistent material degradation. The realistic material degradation is further tested using the self-consistency condition, which is particularly compared to a discrete crack model. This work extends the brittle RCE phase-field modeling towards rate-dependent fracture evolution in a viscoelastic continuum. The novelty of this paper is taking internal variables due to viscoelasticity into account to determine the crack deformation state. Meanwhile, a transient extension from Storm et al. (The concept of representative crack elements (RCE) for phase-field fracture: anisotropic elasticity and thermo-elasticity. Int J Numer Methods Eng 121:779–805, 2020) is also considered. The model is derived thermodynamic-consistently and implemented into the FE framework. Several representative numerical examples are investigated, and consequently, the according findings and potential perspectives are discussed to close this paper.

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