One of the primary objectives in the design of composite structures is the prevention of premature bond failure. Therefore, the characterization of cohesive behavior is an important field of study in structural engineering. Using fracture mechanics principles, the cohesive behavior of an epoxy bonded coarse silica sand aggregate bond interface is studied in this paper, with a focus on finding a...

Present study deals with the prediction of crack initiation angle for mixed mode (I/II) fracture using finite element techniques and J-Integral based approach. The FE code ANSYS is used to estimate the stress intensity factor numerically. The estimated values of SIF were incorporated into six different crack initiation angle criteria to predict the crack initiation angle. Single edge crack spec...

in this paper, the mixed-mode dynamic fracture analysis of a fgm plate is performed using mlpg method also the effect of changes in value and angle of material gradation on the dynamic stress intensity fctor(sif) of mode i, ii, and effective are investigated. to solve time dependent equations that discretized by mlpg method, the central difference method (cdm) and the newmark method are used. a...

In this research, an efficient Galerkin Finite Volume Method (GFVM) along with the h–refinement adaptive process and post–processing error estimation analysis is presented for fracture analysis. The adaptive strategy is used to produce more accurate solution with the least computational cost. To investigate the accuracy and efficiency of the developed model, the GFVM is compared with two versio...

Cracking of rocks and rock-like materials exhibits a rich variety patterns where tensile (mode I) shear II) fractures are often interwoven. These mixed-mode usually cohesive (quasi-brittle) frictional. Although phase-field modeling is increasingly used for rock fracture simulation, no formulation available frictional fracture. To address this shortfall, here we develop double-phase-field that e...