A new brittle-elastoviscoplastic (BEVP) fluid model is presented in this paper. This relatively simple to use, as it contains few material parameters and a fixed-point algorithm effective for solving the coupled system of equations. The combines some existing fundamental features such elasticity, plasticity brittle damage. combination them based on thermodynamics that ensures positivity dissipa...

Three-dimensional transient deformations of a laminate comprised of several unidirectional fiber reinforced layers perfectly bonded to each other and subjected to a blast load are analyzed by the finite element method with an in-house developed, verified and fully validated code with rate-dependent damage evolution equations for anisotropic bodies. The continuum damage mechanics approach employ...

The conditions for localization in a material described by a non-local damage-based constitutive relation coupled with a Kelvin type creep relation are derived in a closed form. The inception of a localized mode is considered as a bifurcation into Preprint submitted to Elsevier Science 15 February 2006 a harmonic mode. The criterion of bifurcation is reduced to the classical form of singularity...

A major challenge in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is to accurately identify both the location and severity of damage using the dynamic response information acquired. While in theory the vibrationbased and impedance-based methods may facilitate damage identification with the assistance of a credible baseline finite element model since the changes of stationary wave responses are used in th...