Fracture process zone (FPZ) in quasi-brittle materials: Review and new insights from flawed granite subjected to uniaxial stress

JZ Zhang, XP Zhou - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2022 - Elsevier
In the failure of quasi-brittle materials such as rocks, microstuctural damage always
precedes macroscopic fracture and manifests itself in the formation of fracture process zones …

Nonlocal integral formulations of plasticity and damage: survey of progress

ZP Bažant, M Jirásek - Journal of engineering mechanics, 2002 - ascelibrary.org
Modeling of the evolution of distributed damage such as microcracking, void formation, and
softening frictional slip necessitates strain-softening constitutive models. The nonlocal …

Study on fracture parameters and fracture process zone of manufactured-sand recycled aggregate concrete

Y Xu, H Chen, Y Tang - Construction and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper studied the fracture parameters and fracture process zone (FPZ) of manufactured-
sand recycled aggregate concrete (MSRAC) with different replacement rates of recycled …

Extended finite element method for quasi‐brittle fracture

S Mariani, U Perego - International Journal for Numerical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
A methodology for the simulation of quasi‐static cohesive crack propagation in quasi‐brittle
materials is presented. In the framework of the recently proposed extended finite element …

A combined XFEM–damage mechanics approach for concrete crack propagation

SN Roth, P Léger, A Soulaïmani - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a crack model that couples the benefits of the damage mechanics
approach and the extended finite element method (XFEM). A crack-tracking technique is …

A review on fracture propagation in concrete: Models, methods, and benchmark tests

F Mukhtar, A El-Tohfa - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2023 - Elsevier
Rigorous characterization of fracture evolution in quasi-brittle materials–such as concrete–
requires computationally intensive and, mostly, complex approaches. However, the …

An extended FE strategy for transition from continuum damage to mode I cohesive crack propagation

C Comi, S Mariani, U Perego - International Journal for …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
An integrated strategy is proposed for the simulation of damage development and crack
propagation in concrete structures. In the initial stage of damage growth, concrete is …

Parameter identification of a cohesive crack model by Kalman filter

G Bolzon, R Fedele, G Maier - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2002 - Elsevier
The Kalman filter (KF) methodology is apt to solve parameter identification (inverse)
problems in a statistical context, through a sequence of estimations, which starts from an a …

Evolution of the mixed mode FPZ and fracture roughness of Beishan granite after coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical treatment

D Zhang, T Meng, L Gao, S Pu, F Wang, E Li - Theoretical and Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
Deep surrounding rocks contain a network of longitudinally intersecting fissures. Exploration
of their fracture process zone (FPZ) size evolution during mixed loading and fracture surface …

Experimental study on the fracture process zone characteristics in concrete utilizing DIC and AE methods

S Dai, X Liu, K Nawnit - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
The present work focuses on investigating the characteristics of the fracture process zone
(FPZ) in concrete. The Single-edge notched (SEN) concrete beams under three-points …