The present work addresses the micromechanical modeling and simulation of crack initiation propagation in ductile materials failing by void nucleation, growth coalescence. A cohesive–volumetric approach is used overall material behavior characterized both a hardening bulk constitutive law softening surface traction–separation embedded between each mesh finite element discretization. sums up acr...

Cohesive laws describe the resistance to incipient separation of material surfaces. A cohesive finite element is formulated on the basis of a particular cohesive law. Cohesive elements are placed at the boundary between adjacent standard volume finite elements to model fatigue damage that leads to fracture at the separation of the element boundaries per the cohesive law. In this work, a cohesiv...

Engineering adhesive joints are being increasingly used in industry because of the advantages they offer over other joining methods such as fastening or welding. The development and the use of adhesives in a design environment require accurate mechanical tests in order to measure their strength and toughness. Standard techniques such as the shear lap test are commonly used to measure shear stre...

Traditional analyses of slip at corners of contacts, based on linear elasticity and a Coulomb friction law, are very sensitive to the details of local geometries, owing to the effects of elastic singularities. Following the use of cohesive-zone models to address such issues in mode-II fracture, we present analyses of slip and wear at corners of contacts when a finite interfacial shear strength ...

A traction-displacement relationship that may be embedded into a cohesive zone model for microscale problems of intergranular fracture is extracted from atomistic molecular-dynamics simulations. A molecular-dynamics model for crack propagation under steady-state conditions is developed to analyze intergranular fracture along a flat Σ99 [1 1 0] symmetric tilt grain boundary in aluminum. Under hy...

In this work, we developed a bond-based cohesive peridynamics model (CPDM) and apply it to simulate inelastic fracture by using the meso-scale Xu-Needleman potential . By doing so, have successfully continuum mechanics with intrinsic stress/strain measures as well consistent built-in macro-scale constitutive relations. The main novelties of work are: (1) We shown that stress proposed nonlocal i...