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A cohesive element model for mixed mode loading with frictional contact capability
Author(s) -
Snozzi Leonardo,
Molinari JeanFrançois
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.421
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1097-0207
pISSN - 0029-5981
DOI - 10.1002/nme.4398
Subject(s) - cohesive zone model , dissipation , materials science , shear (geology) , finite element method , structural engineering , mechanics , coulomb , traction (geology) , coulomb friction , masonry , unilateral contact , engineering , composite material , mechanical engineering , nonlinear system , physics , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics , electron
SUMMARY We present a model that combines interface debonding and frictional contact. The onset of fracture is explicitly modeled using the well‐known cohesive approach. Whereas the debonding process is controlled by a new extrinsic traction separation law, which accounts for mode mixity, and yields two separate values for energy dissipation in mode I and mode II loading, the impenetrability condition is enforced with a contact algorithm. We resort to the classical law of unilateral contact and Coulomb friction. The contact algorithm is coupled together to the cohesive approach in order to have a continuous transition from crack nucleation to the pure frictional state after complete decohesion. We validate our model by simulating a shear test on a masonry wallette and by reproducing an experimental test on a masonry wall loaded in compression and shear. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.