Stability Theory of Cohesive Crack Model

Modeling of concrete cracking—A hybrid technique of using displacement discontinuity element method and direct boundary element method

“…Carpinteri and Colombo [13] demonstrated the change in shape of the loaddeflection diagram by varying the size-scale and explained how the snap-back or catastrophic branches can be captured. Li and Liang [14] conducted a study on the stability behavior of the FCM. They proposed an analytical model with which the snap-back behavior of a three-point beam was studied.…”

Prediction of Concrete Crack Width under Combined Reinforcement Corrosion and Applied Load

“…The direction of the crack propagation will be perpendicular to the maximum tensile principle stress. However, some researchers use energy-based approach to obtain the crack initiation and its direction (Li and Liang 1992;Xie et al 1995).…”

Modeling and simulation of crack propagation in mixed-modes interlaminar fracture specimens

“…[40]- [42]) or, as done more recently, with particular reference to cohesive crack models which can be considered as belonging to the category of interface models (see e.g. [43], [44]). Nevertheless the results of Section 2 can be used as a useful comparison when the interface model is such that the inteflaminar stress versus displacement discontinuity law is very brittle; in this case the hypotheses of LEFM are almost respected.…”