Circular representative volume elements for strain localization problems

A common choice for multiscale modeling of the mechanical response of composites is to use periodic boundary conditions (PBCs) on square and cubical representative volume elements (RVEs). However, when strain localization occurs in the micromodel, these PBCs are unable to reproduce the transverse isotropy of composite materials with a random...

Circular Microstructural Volume Elements with Periodic Boundary Conditions for Strain Localization Problems

A common choice for multiscale modeling of the mechanical response of composites is to use periodic boundary conditions (BCs) on square representative volume elements (RVEs). However, these periodic BCs over-constrain the response when strain localization takes place in bands that are not compatible with the imposed periodic constraints....

Multiscale analysis of damage using dual and primal domain decomposition techniques

In this contribution, dual and primal domain decomposition techniques are studied for the multiscale analysis of failure in quasi-brittle materials. The multiscale strategy essentially consists in decomposing the structure into a number of nonoverlapping domains and considering a refined spatial resolution where needed. In multiscale analysis of...

Concurrent multiscale analysis of heterogeneous materials

Concurrent multiscale analysis of quasi-brittle heterogeneous materials such as concrete and rock is conducted employing non-overlapping domain decomposition techniques. Initially a coarse discretization with effective properties is considered at each domain. A zoom-in technique is performed at those domains in which non-linearities take place....

Rotation capacity of self-compacting steel fibre reinforced concrete beams

Steel fibres are known to enhance the toughness of concrete in compression and in tension. Steel fibres also improve the bond properties between concrete matrix and reinforcing steel bars. In order to investigate the effect of steel fibres on the rotation capacity of reinforced concrete members, four simply supported beams were loaded in three...

Computing strain fields from discrete displacement fields in 2D-solids

Experimental monitoring of strain localization and failure behaviour of composite materials

An algorithm for mesh rezoning with application to strain localization problems