Quasi-brittle and Brittle Fracture Simulation Using Phase-field Method based on Cell-based Smoothed Finite Element Method

Changkye Lee; Sundararajan Natarajan; Jurng-Jae Yee

doi:10.7734/COSEIK.2023.36.5.295

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Quasi-brittle and Brittle Fracture Simulation Using Phase-field Method based on Cell-based Smoothed Finite Element Method 셀기반 평활화 유한요소법에 기반한 위상분야법을 이용한 준취성 및 취성 파괴 시뮬레이션

31 October 2023. pp. 295-305

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Abstract

This study introduces a smoothed finite-element implementation into the phase-field framework. In recent years, the phase-field method has recieved considerable attention in crack initiation and propagation since the method needs no further treatment to express the crack growth path. In the phase-field method, high strain-energy accuracy is needed to capture the complex crack growth path; thus, it is obtained in the framework of the smoothed finite-element method. The salient feature of the smoothed finite-element method is that the finite element cells are divided into sub-cells and each sub-cell is rebuilt as a smoothing domain where smoothed strain energy is calculated. An adaptive quadtree refinement is also employed in the present framework to avoid the computational burden. Numerical experiments are performed to investigate the performance of the proposed approach, compared with that of the finite-element method and the reference solutions.

Keywords

phase-field method

smoothed finite element method

quadtree refinement

crack propagation

본 연구에서는 평활화 유한요소법(Smoothed finite element method)을 도입한 위상분야법(Phase-field method)에 대해 소개하고자 한다. 위상분야법은 최근 균열 개시 및 전파 해석에 많이 사용되는 기법으로 균열 표면을 추적하기 위한 추가적인 처리기법이 필요하지 않는 특징이 있다. 위상분야법에서 복잡한 균열 전파를 포착하기 위해 높은 정확도의 변형률 에너지를 평활화 유한요소법을 도입하여 계산하였다. 평활화 유한요소법은 유한요소를 하위 셀로 나누고 각각의 하위 셀을 평활화 영역으로 재조립하여 변형률 에너지를 계산하게 된다. 또한 해석 시간 단축을 위하여 쿼드트리 요소망을 제안한 기법에 사용하였다. 수치 예제를 통하여 제안한 기법을 참조해 및 유한요소법과 비교하여 검증하였다.

키워드

위상분야법

평활화 유한요소법

쿼드트리 요소망

균열 전파

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Publisher :Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
Publisher(Ko) :한국전산구조공학회
Journal Title :Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
Journal Title(Ko) :한국전산구조공학회 논문집
Volume : 36
No :5
Pages :295-305
Received Date : 2023-06-23
Revised Date : 2023-07-27
Accepted Date : 2023-08-02
DOI :https://doi.org/10.7734/COSEIK.2023.36.5.295

Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea ISSN:1229-3059(Print) 2287-2302(Online) 한국전산구조공학회 논문집

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