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ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS
Volume 204, Issue -, Pages 15-28Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2018.09.003
Keywords
Cohesive crack model; Size effect; Quasi-brittle materials; Cohesive fracture
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- U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) [CMMI-1435923]
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This paper deals with the study of size effect on structural strength for quasi-brittle materials under mode I fracture conditions. By using a linear cohesive crack model, accurate numerical simulations were performed to compute the size effect curves for two test configurations - namely, the three-point bending test with span-to-depth ratio equal to 3 and the center crack panel test - featuring sharp notches and blunt notches whose width is also scaled with the specimen dimension. The analysis of the results shows that, as the specimen size tends to infinity, the asymptotic behavior depends on the type of notch. For sharp notches the size effect curve tends asymptotically to Bazant's Size Effect Law. On the contrary, for blunt notches the size effect curve tends to a horizontal asymptote corresponding to the elastic limit. The elastic limit can be calculated by the tensile strength reduced by the stress concentration factor at the tip of the blunt notch and it depends on the geometry of the specimen. Furthermore, the numerical results were utilized to derive the expression of a Generalized Cohesive Size Effect Curve (GCSEC) which agrees well with Bazant's Universal Size Effect Law (USEL) and with some experimental data gathered from the literature.
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