Why continuum damage is nonlocal: Justification by quasiperiodic microcrack array

DOI10.1016/0093-6413(87)90063-2zbMath0666.73067OpenAlexW2153566274MaRDI QIDQ1116737

Zdeněk P. Bažant

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Mechanics Research Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0093-6413(87)90063-2

zbMATH Keywords

strainhomogenizedinitial stagecircular and smallcompliance per crackcondition of compatibilitycondition of work equivalencedistributed crackingelastic continuum with a quasiperiodic array of cracksfunction of the spatial averagepenny-shaped and smallregular spacingStrain-softening damageterminal stageuncracked ligamentsvarying sizes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inhomogeneity in solid mechanics (74E05) Brittle damage (74R05)

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