A combined fracture-micromechanics model for tensile strain-softening in brittle materials, based on propagation of interacting microcracks

DOI10.1002/nag.544zbMath1152.74038MaRDI QIDQ3424528

Christian Hellmich, Herbert A. Mang, Bernhard L. A. Pichler

Publication date: 2 March 2007

Published in: International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nag.544

zbMATH Keywords

initial damage; initial microcrack size; stiffness estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74R10: Brittle fracture

74M25: Micromechanics of solids

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