12 research outputs found
A meshfree thin shell method for nonlinear dynamic fracture
A meshfree method for thin shells with finite strains and arbitrary evolving cracks is described. The
C1 displacement continuity requirement is met by the approximation, so no special treatments for
fulfilling the Kirchhoff condition are necessary. Membrane locking is eliminated by the use of a cubic
or quartic polynomial basis. The shell is tested for several elastic and elasto-plastic examples and
shows good results. The shell is subsequently extended to modelling cracks. Since no discretization
of the director field is needed, the incorporation of discontinuities is easy to implement and straight
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Quasi-static crack propagation in plane and plate structures using set-valued traction-separation laws
We introduce a numerical technique to model set-valued traction-separation laws in plate bending and
also plane crack propagation problems. By use of recent developments in thin (Kirchhoff-Love) shell
models and the extended finite element method, a complete and accurate algorithm for the cohesive
law is presented and is used to determine the crack path. The cohesive law includes softening and
unloading to origin, adhesion and contact. Pure debonding and contact are obtained as particular
(degenerate) cases. A smooth root finding algorithm (based on the trust region method) is adopted.
A step-driven algorithm is described with a smoothed law which can be made arbitrarily close to the
exact non smooth law. In the examples shown the results were found to be step-size insensitive and
accurate. In addition, the method provides the crack advance law, extracted from the cohesive law
and the absence of stress singularity at the tip
A new approach for modelling slip lines in geological materials with cohesive models
A methodology to model slip lines as strong displacement discontinuities within a continuum mechanics
context is presented. The loss of hyperbolicity of the IBVP is used as the criterion for switching from a
classical continuum description of the constitutive behaviour to a traction-separation model acting at the
discontinuity surface. A version of the element-free Galerkin (EFG) method is employed where the slip line
is represented as a set of slipped particles. The representation of the slip line as set of cohesive segments
promises to remove difficulties in the propagation of the slip line. Two-dimensional examples are studied
using the Drucker–Prager material model
A simplified meshfree method for shear bands with cohesive surfaces
A simple methodology to model shear bands as strong displacement discontinuities in a mesh-free particle
method is presented. The shear band is represented as a set of sheared particles. A sheared particle is
developed through enrichment by tangential displacement discontinuities. The representation of the shear
band as set of cohesive segments provides a simple and versatile model of shear bands. The loss of material
stability is used as the criterion for switching from a classical continuum description of the constitutive
behaviour to a traction-separation law acting on the discontinuity surface. The method is implemented for
two and three dimensions. Examples of shear band progression in rate-dependent and rate-independent
materials are presented, including the Kalthoff problem, where the transition from brittle fracture to shear
banding is studied
Strong displacements discontinuities and Lagrange multipliers: finite displacement formulations in the analysis of fracture problems
A multiscale multisurface constitutive model for the thermo-plastic behavior of polyethylene
How Do Scientific Views Change? Notes from an Extended Adversarial Collaboration
International audienceThere are few examples of an extended adversarial collaboration, in which investigators committed to different theoretical views collaborate to test opposing predictions. Whereas previous adversarial collaborations have produced single research articles, here, we share our experience in programmatic, extended adversarial collaboration involving three laboratories in different countries with different theoretical views regarding working memory, the limited information retained in mind, serving ongoing thought and action. We have focused on short-term memory retention of items (letters) during a distracting task (arithmetic), and effects of aging on these tasks. Over several years, we have conducted and published joint research with preregistered predictions, methods, and analysis plans, with replication of each study across two laboratories concurrently. We argue that, although an adversarial collaboration will not usually induce senior researchers to abandon favored theoretical views and adopt opposing views, it will necessitate varieties of their views that are more similar to one another, in that they must account for a growing, common corpus of evidence. This approach promotes understanding of others’ views and presents to the field research findings accepted as valid by researchers with opposing interpretations. We illustrate this process with our own research experiences and make recommendations applicable to diverse scientific areas