Home Work 03: Crack Propagation by Cohesive Surface: Ruhr University-Mss-Icams
Home Work 03: Crack Propagation by Cohesive Surface: Ruhr University-Mss-Icams
Home Work 03: Crack Propagation by Cohesive Surface: Ruhr University-Mss-Icams
HUZAIFA SHABBIR
1/23/2015
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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)).
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Figure 2: Representation of the mesh at the crack (magnified image of the model to visualize
properly the mesh at the crack).
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(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.
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Stress concentrate ahead at the crack tip (crack act as a stress concentrator).
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.
Figure 4 represent the Von Mises contour plot at the end of the analysis.
The sample is not broken completely at the end of the analysis and these reasons are
mention in the discussion of the next section.
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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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