Only thickness is essential in the Thick Level Set approach

Nunziante Valoroso (1) , Claude Stolz (2)

1 PARTHENOPE - Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope” = University of Naples
2 IMSIA - UMR 9219 - Institut des Sciences de la mécanique et Applications industrielles

Regularized damage formulations have become increasingly popular in the last decades for dealing with problems in Mechanics suffering from spurious mesh sensitivity induced by strain softening [1]. In short, the idea underlying almost all such models is that of using some extended constitutive equations in which a length scale parameter brings to the macro level information about material microstructure.

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]; Mechanics [physics.med-ph]; Structural mechanics [physics.class-ph]; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Mechanics [physics.med-ph]; Solid mechanics [physics.class-ph]; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Mechanics [physics.med-ph]; Materials and structures in mechanics [physics.class-ph]

Nunziante Valoroso, Claude Stolz. Only thickness is essential in the Thick Level Set approach. The 6th edition of International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures (CFRAC-2019), Jun 2019, Braunschweig, Germany. ⟨hal-02266886⟩