This paper deals with the application of Cohesive Zone Model (CZM) concepts to study mode I fracture in adhesive bonded joints. In particular, an intrinsic piece-wise linear cohesive surface relation is used in order to model fracture in a pre-cracked bonded Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) specimen. Finite element implementation of the CZM is accomplished by means of the user element (UEL) feature...

Massively parallel finite element simulations of dynamic fracture and fragmentation of brittle solids are presented. Fracture is introduced by the adaptive insertion of cohesive elements. The model is validated against specially designed experiments in a collaborative effort between the experimental and the computational groups. Mesh sensitivity issues are addressed through the renormalization ...

The cohesive element approach is proposed as a tool for simulating delamination propagation between a facesheet and a core in a honeycomb core composite panel. To determine the critical energy release rate (Gc) of the cohesive model, Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) fracture tests were performed. The peak strength (σc) of the cohesive model was determined from Flatwise Tension (FWT) tests. The DCB ...

The size effect in the failure of a hybrid adhesive joint of a metal with a fiber-polymer composite, which has been experimentally demonstrated and analytically formulated in preceding two papers, is here investigated numerically. Cohesive finite elements with a mixed-mode fracture criterion are adopted to model the adhesive layer in the metal-composite interface. A linear tractionseparation so...

We develop a finite-element method for the simulation of dynamic shell fracture and fragmentation based on cohesive models of fracture. We assume the shells to be thin and to obey the Kirchhoff-Love theory. The shell is spatially discretized by means of subdivision shell elements. Fracture is allowed only along element edges and is assumed to be governed by a cohesive law. When coupled to the s...

The paper presents a computational approach and numerical data which facilitate the use of the smeared-tip method for cohesive fracture in large enough structures. In the recently developed K-version of the smeared tip method, the large-size asymptotic profile of the stress intensity factor density along a cohesive crack is considered as a material characteristic, which is uniquely related to t...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Concrete (E) Fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) (E) Constitutive relationship (C) Cohesive fracture (C) Fracture energy (C) A simple, effective, and practical constitutive model for cohesive fracture of fiber reinforced concrete is proposed by differentiating the aggregate bridging zone and the fiber bridging zone. The aggregate bridging zone is related to the total...

Bin Zhou, M. D. Thouless, and S. M. Ward Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Material Science and Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, 48109 Scientific Research Laboratory Ford Motor Company Dearborn, MI, 48124 Abstract A methodology for determining the cohesive facture parameters associated with pull-out of spot welds is presented. Since failure of a spot weld by pu...

Recently published data for fracture in human humeral cortical bone are analyzed using cohesive-zone models to deal with the nonlinear processes of material failure. Such models represent the nonlinear deformation processes involved in fracture by cohesive tractions exerted by the failing material along a fracture process zone, rather than attributing all damage to a process occurring at a sing...