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The fracture behaviors of quasi-brittle materials such as concrete were evaluated based on the crack propagation criterion, and among all criterions reported in the literature, the toughness-based crack initiation-propagation (TCIP) criterion capable of capturing simultaneously the crack initiation and propagation was widely used. Recently, a modified fracture parameter was introduced to ensure the energy balance relationship, however, the use of the modified parameter-based TCIP criterion was limited only to mode-I fracture of quasi-brittle materials. In the context of mixed-mode fracture problems, an extra effort was made in this paper to extend the modified parameter-based TCIP criterion previously developed for the mode-I fracture to the mixed mode I-II fracture. Application of the extended criterion was performed on three-point bending beams with offset and multi-segment notches through finite element analysis, in which the cohesive force at the fracture process zone was applied through nonlinear spring elements. On concrete materials, the full crack trajectories for mixed mode I-II fracture and nonlinear mechanical responses such as P-delta, P-CMOD, and P-CMSD curves were numerically obtained in the present paper. With the modified fracture energy parameter, good consistency was found between the numerical results given by the reported model and experiments. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that the use of TCIP criterion with the modified fracture energy parameter on concretes was bounded, it would be more prominent on other geomaterials such as rocks, for both static and dynamic analysis.
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THEORETICAL AND APPLIED FRACTURE MECHANICS
ISSN: 0167-8442
Year: 2023
Volume: 123
5 . 3 0 0
JCR@2022
ESI Discipline: ENGINEERING;
ESI HC Threshold:19
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WoS CC Cited Count: 11
SCOPUS Cited Count: 11
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30 Days PV: 7
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