The three dimensional extended bridging domain method for brittle fracture

H. Talebi, M. Silani, T. Rabczuk

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    Abstract

    In this paper, a concurrent multiscale method for coupling the three dimensional continuum and molecular dynamics domain is presented. The coupling method is based on the Bridging Domain method. To handle discontinuities in continuum domain, the extended finite element method (XFEM) is used. The Lennard-Jones potential is used to model the interactions in the atomistic domain and the Cauchy-Born method is used to compute the material behaviour in the continuum domain. To show the productivity and applicability of the proposed method, two different three dimensional crack examples were modeled. The results show that the method is capable of handling dislocation nucleation and crack propagation in the three dimensional space.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 8th International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, ECT 2012
    PublisherCivil-Comp Press
    Volume100
    ISBN (Print)9781905088553
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    Event8th International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, ECT 2012 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
    Duration: 2012 Sept 42012 Sept 7

    Other

    Other8th International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, ECT 2012
    Country/TerritoryCroatia
    CityDubrovnik
    Period12/9/412/9/7

    Keywords

    • Bridging domain method
    • Extended finite element method
    • Molecular dynamics
    • Multiscale methods

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Environmental Engineering
    • Civil and Structural Engineering
    • Computational Theory and Mathematics
    • Artificial Intelligence

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