To avoid the well-known drawbacks of the classical continuum damage theory when localization occurs, an isotropic gradient-enchanced damage model is proposed in which the loading function not only depends on the damage value, but also on its Laplacian. The initial boundary value problem obtained ado
GRADIENT ENHANCED DAMAGE FOR QUASI-BRITTLE MATERIALS
β Scribed by R. H. J. PEERLINGS; R. DE BORST; W. A. M. BREKELMANS; J. H. P. DE VREE
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 561 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0029-5981
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