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Progressive fracture in quasi-brittle materials such as concrete, rocks, soils, is often treated as strain softening in continuum damage mechanics. Such constitutive relations favour spurious strain localization and ill-posedness of boundary value problems, and call for some kind [...]

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An adaptive finite element strategy for nonlocal damage computations is presented. The proposed approach is based on the combination of a residual-type [...]

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We present an efficient and reliable approach for the numerical modelling of failure with nonlocal damage models. The two major numerical challenges––the [...]

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We have devised a crack-tracking methodology for general crack paths in elasto-damaging materials based on the regularized extended finite element method. The resulting procedure is in-between nonlocal models, where the discontinuity surface is replaced by a finite width zone, and [...]

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Progressive fracture in quasi-brittle materials is often treated via strain softening models in continuum damage mechanics. Such constitutive relations favour spurious strain localization and ill-posedness of [...]

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This work presents a procedure to simulate the growth and propagation of localized tensile cracks on quasi-brittle materials. The so-called smeared damage approach, which consists in standard [...]

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Tracking algorithms constitute an efficient numerical technique for modelling fracture in quasi-brittle materials. They succeed in representing localized [...]

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The importance of crack propagation in the structural behaviour of concrete and masonry structures has led to the development of a wide range of finite element methods for crack simulation. [...]

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We present an efficient and reliable approach for the numerical modelling of failure with nonlocal damage models. The two major numerical challenges – the strongly nonlinear, highly localized and parameter-dependent structural response of quasi-brittle materials, and the [...]