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    RUHR UNIVERSITY-MSS-ICAMS

    HOME WORK 03: CRACK


    PROPAGATION BY COHESIVE
    SURFACE
    COMPUTATION FRACTURE MECHANICS

    HUZAIFA SHABBIR
    1/23/2015

    Huzaifa (108013282828)

    RUB MSS ICAMS

    Images of the global mesh:

    (a)

    (b)
    Figure 1: Schematic illustration of (a) global mesh of the model and (b) magnified part of the
    global mesh for better visualization (magnified left side of (a)).

    Huzaifa (108013282828)

    RUB MSS ICAMS

    Images of the mesh at the crack tip:

    Figure 2: Representation of the mesh at the crack (magnified image of the model to visualize
    properly the mesh at the crack).

    Huzaifa (108013282828)

    RUB MSS ICAMS

    Contour plot before crack start to propagate:

    (a)

    (b)
    Figure 3: Von Mises contour plot before crack start to grow. (a) and (b) representing the same
    contour plot but having different numbers of contours (a) 10 contours and (b) 5 contours.

    Huzaifa (108013282828)

    RUB MSS ICAMS

    Contour plot at the end of the analysis:

    Figure 4: Von Mises contour plot at the end of the analysis.

    Discussion of the Von Mises contour plots:


    Figures 3 represents the Von Mises (equivalent stress) contour plot before the crack start to
    propagate

    Stress concentrate ahead at the crack tip (crack act as a stress concentrator).

    Figure 3 corresponds to the first step of the analysis.

    Material is in the elastic deformation range (stress is below the yield stress
    everywhere in the material) but the stress at the crack tip is above the yield stress and
    hence crack deform plastically.

    Contour plot is symmetric with respect to the crack.

    Figure 4 represent the Von Mises contour plot at the end of the analysis.

    Von Mises contour plot is still symmetric along the crack.

    The sample is not broken completely at the end of the analysis and these reasons are
    mention in the discussion of the next section.

    Huzaifa (108013282828)

    RUB MSS ICAMS

    Reaction force sum versus time plot:

    Figure 5: Graph between reaction forces sum and time along the Z path.

    Discussion:

    The reasons of not completely breaking the specimen are may be one of the
    following:
    Not enough number of time steps are provide to the analysis
    Not enough displacement (boundary condition) is applied to completely break
    the sample.

    The Figure 5 corresponds to the traction separation law, where the time is indirectly
    related to the displacement. Each time step corresponds to the displacement increment
    applied in the analysis.
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