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THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS LETTERS
Volume 4, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1063/2.1405108
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phase field model; fracture mechanics; size effects; stability; finite element method
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In phase field fracture models the value of the order parameter distinguishes between broken and undamaged material. At crack faces the order parameter interpolates smoothly between these two states of the material, which can be regarded as phases. The crack evolution follows implicitly from the time integration of an evolution equation of the order parameter, which is coupled to the mechanical field equations. Among other phenomena phase field fracture models are able to reproduce crack nucleation in initially sound materials. For a 1D setting it has been shown that crack nucleation is triggered by the loss of stability of the unfractured, spatially homogeneous solution, and that the stability point depends on the size of the considered structure. This work numerically investigates to which extend size effects are reproduced by the 2D phase field model. Exemplarily, a finite element study of the hole size effect is performed and the simulation results are compared to experimental data. (C) 2014 The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
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