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A physical minimum dissipative energy-based damage model for crack growth simulation of geoengineering structures

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A damage model and simulation method are developed to simulate fracture process of geoengineering structures by using the continuum damage mechanics. The main contribution of this study is that the principle of minimum dissipative energy is used to develop the damage model, in which each parameter has an explicit physics meaning. Thus the competitive crack growth process of geoengineering structures can be simulated by using the developed method, which can consider the stress redistribution during simulation within a loading step. Two numerical examples are implemented by using the developed model and method, and the predicted crack growth path matched well with the experiment results. The results supported that the developed damage model and method can be expected to be an effective numerical tool to predict failure path and evaluate structural safety of geoengineering structures.

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The works described in this paper are financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 52008104), Program of Chang Jiang Scholars of Ministry of Education and the National Science Found for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (Grant No. 51625803). The authors are very grateful to the reviewers and editor for their constructive comments and suggestions, which helped the authors to improve their paper significantly.

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Sun, B., Xu, ZD. A physical minimum dissipative energy-based damage model for crack growth simulation of geoengineering structures. Int J Fract 231, 79–94 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-021-00565-4

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