A sophisticated simulation for the fracture behavior of concrete material using XFEM |
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| Authors: | Changhai Zhai Xiaomin Wang Jingchang Kong Shuang Li Lili Xie |
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| Institution: | 1.School of Civil Engineering,Harbin Institute of Technology,Harbin,China;2.Key Lab of Structures Dynamic Behavior and Control (Harbin Institute of Technology),Ministry of Education,Heilongjiang, Harbin,China;3.Institute of Engineering Mechanics,China Earthquake Administration,Harbin,China |
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| Abstract: | The development of a powerful numerical model to simulate the fracture behavior of concrete material has long been one of the dominant research areas in earthquake engineering. A reliable model should be able to adequately represent the discontinuous characteristics of cracks and simulate various failure behaviors under complicated loading conditions. In this paper, a numerical formulation, which incorporates a sophisticated rigid-plastic interface constitutive model coupling cohesion softening, contact, friction and shear dilatation into the XFEM, is proposed to describe various crack behaviors of concrete material. An effective numerical integration scheme for accurately assembling the contribution to the weak form on both sides of the discontinuity is introduced. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been assessed by simulating several well-known experimental tests. It is concluded that the numerical method can successfully capture the crack paths and accurately predict the fracture behavior of concrete structures. The influence of mode-II parameters on the mixed-mode fracture behavior is further investigated to better determine these parameters. |
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