Identifying Processes Governing Damage Evolution in Quasi-Static Elasticity. Part 2 -- Numerical Simulations

Publication date 11 February 2022

Methods of ordinary differential equations applied to PDEs (35A24) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Numerical methods for inverse problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M32) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Theories of fracture and damage (74A45) Linear elasticity with initial stresses (74B10) Inverse problems in equilibrium solid mechanics (74G75) Brittle damage (74R05) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Finite difference methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S20)

arXiv classification

cs.NA math.NA

Abstract: We investigate numerically a quasi-static elasticity system of Kachanov-type. To do so we propose an Euler time discretization combined with a suitable finite elements scheme (FEM) to handle the discretization is space. We use ODE-type arguments to prove the consistency of the scheme as well as its convergence rate. We rely on the computational platform FEniCS to perform the FEM discretizations in space needed to compute the model output. The simulation results show a good agreement with both the physics of the problem and with our previous qualitative mathematical analysis results obtained for precisely the same problem setting. Furthermore, our implementation recovers nicely the theoretically expected convergence rate. This is a preliminary study preparing the framework for the rigorous numerical identification of the damage process in Kachanov-type models.

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