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A Gradient-Enhanced Continuum Damage Model for Residually Stressed Fibre-Reinforced Materials at Finite Strains

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Thomas Lenarz
  • Peter Wriggers

Summary, in English

The modelling of damage effects in materials constitutes a major challenge in various engineering-related disciplines. However, the assumption of purely local continuum damage formulations may lead to ill-posed boundary value problems and—with regard to numerical methods such as the finite element method—to mesh-dependent solutions, a vanishing localised damage zone upon mesh refinement, and hence physically questionable results. In order to circumvent these deficiencies, we present a non-local gradient-enhanced damage model at finite strains. We additively compose the hyperelastic constitutive response at local material point level of an isotropic matrix and of an anisotropic fibre-reinforced material. The inelastic constitutive response is characterised by a scalar [1– d]-damage model, where we assume only the anisotropic elastic part to damage. Furthermore, we enhance the local free energy by a gradient-term. This term essentially contains the gradient of the non-local damage variable which we introduce as an additional global field variable. In order to guarantee the equivalence between the local and non-local damage variable, we incorporate a penalisation term within the free energy. Based on the principle of minimum total potential energy, we obtain a coupled system of variational equations. The associated non-linear system of equations is symmetric and can conveniently be solved by standard incremental-iterative Newton-Raphson schemes or arc-length-based solution methods. As a further key aspect, we incorporate residual stresses by means of a multiplicative composition of the deformation gradient. As a three-dimensional finite element example, we study the material degradation of a fibre-reinforced tube subjected to internal pressure. This highlights the mesh-objective and constitutive properties of the model and illustratively underlines the capabilities of the formulation with regard to biomechanical application such as the simulation of arteries.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

19-40

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Biomedical Technology

Volym

74

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Springer

Ämne

  • Mechanical Engineering

Nyckelord

  • Gradient-enhanced damage
  • Large deformations
  • Finite element method
  • Residual stresses
  • Anisotropic biological tissues

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1613-7736
  • ISBN: 978-3-319-10980-0