Abstract
This work presents a new adaptive approach for the numerical simulation of a phase-field model for fractures in nearly incompressible solids. In order to cope with locking effects, we use a recently proposed mixed form where we have a hydro-static pressure as additional unknown besides the displacement field and the phase-field variable. To fulfill the fracture irreversibility constraint, we consider a formulation as a variational inequality in the phase-field variable. For adaptive mesh refinement, we use a recently developed residual-type a posteriori error estimator for the phase-field variational inequality which is efficient and reliable, and robust with respect to the phase-field regularization parameter. The proposed model and the adaptive error-based refinement strategy are demonstrated by means of numerical tests derived from the L-shaped panel test, originally developed for concrete. Here, the Poisson’s ratio is changed from the standard setting towards the incompressible limit ν → 0.5.
Keywords
- Finite elements
- Phase-field fracture
- Error estimation
- Adaptive refinement
- Mixed system
- Incompressible solids
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This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)—392587580. It is part of the Priority Program 1748 (DFG SPP 1748) Reliable Simulation Techniques in Solid Mechanics. Development of Non-standard Discretization Methods, Mechanical and Mathematical Analysis.
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Mang, K., Walloth, M., Wick, T., Wollner, W. (2021). Adaptive Numerical Simulation of a Phase-Field Fracture Model in Mixed Form Tested on an L-shaped Specimen with High Poisson Ratios. In: Vermolen, F.J., Vuik, C. (eds) Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications ENUMATH 2019. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 139. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55874-1_118
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