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A nonlocal computational homogenization of softening quasi-brittle materials

Khoei, A. R ; Sharif University of Technology | 2019

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1002/nme.6070
  3. Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2019
  4. Abstract:
  5. In this paper, a computational counterpart of the experimental investigation is presented based on a nonlocal computational homogenization technique for extracting damage model parameters in quasi-brittle materials with softening behavior. The technique is illustrated by introducing the macroscopic nonlocal strain to eliminate the mesh sensitivity in the macroscale level as well as the size dependence of the representative volume element (RVE) in the first-order continuous homogenization. The macroscopic nonlocal strains are computed at each direction, and both the local and nonlocal strains are transferred to the microscale level. Two RVEs with similar geometries and material properties are introduced for each macroscopic Gauss point, in which the microscopic damage variables and the macroscale consistent tangent modulus and its derivatives are obtained by imposing the macroscopic nonlocal strain on the first RVE, and the macroscopic stress is computed by employing the microscopic damage variables and imposing the macroscopic local strain over the second RVE. Finally, numerical examples are solved to illustrate the performance of the proposed nonlocal computational homogenization technique for softening quasi-brittle materials. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
  6. Keywords:
  7. Macroscopic gradient parameter ; Macroscopic nonlocal strain ; Softening quasi-brittle material ; Homogenization method ; Numerical methods ; Strain ; Computational homogenization ; Damage model parameters ; Gradient parameter ; Nonlocal ; Quasibrittle material ; Brittleness
  8. Source: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering ; Volume 119, Issue 8 , 2019 , Pages 712-736 ; 00295981 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/nme.6070