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A continuum damage mechanics approach to crack tip shielding in brittle solids

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This paper focuses firstly on the development of a comprehensive anisotropic theory of continuum damage mechanics for brittle solids suffering progressive deterioration. The basic concept of damage parameterization is re-examined and a new set of damage variables introduced yielding a new damage effect tensor through which the effective stress and strain tensors are defined. Constitutive equations of the damaged material are established incorporating a new hypothesis on equivalence between damaged and undamaged responses of the material. The model is completed by introduction of a general damage characteristic tensor which accounts for the experimentally observed fact that the rate of damage growth depends nonlinearly on applied external loads. The established damage model is next applied to investigate the crack-tip shielding effect due to anisotropic microcracking. The ratio of near-tip to remote stress intensity factors is obtained in closed form. A moderate but definite effect of anisotropy of microcracking is observed. The case of isotropic damage is found to be the least effective in screening remote external loads and is in accord with the results obtained by other researchers using different approaches.

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    Present address: Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China

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Chow, C.L., Lu, T.J. A continuum damage mechanics approach to crack tip shielding in brittle solids. Int J Fract 50, 79–114 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00035206

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