BEM solution of delamination problems using an interface damage and plasticity model

  • Authors:

  • C. G. Panagiotopoulos;V. Mantič;T. Roubíček

  • Affiliations:

  • Group of Elasticity and Strength of Materials, Department of Continuum Mechanics, School of Engineering, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain 410 92;Group of Elasticity and Strength of Materials, Department of Continuum Mechanics, School of Engineering, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain 410 92;Mathematical Institute, Charles University, Praha 8, Czech Republic 18675 and Institute of Thermomechanics of the ASCR, Praha 8, Czech Republic 182 00

  • Venue:
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The problem of quasistatic and rate-independent evolution of elastic-plastic-brittle delamination at small strains is considered. Delamination processes for linear elastic bodies glued by an adhesive to each other or to a rigid outer surface are studied. The energy amounts dissipated in fracture Mode I (opening) and Mode II (shear) at an interface may be different. A concept of internal parameters is used here on the delaminating interfaces, involving a couple of scalar damage variable and a plastic tangential slip with kinematic-type hardening. The so-called energetic solution concept is employed. An inelastic process at an interface is devised in such a way that the dissipated energy depends only on the rates of internal parameters and therefore the model is associative. A fully implicit time discretization is combined with a spatial discretization of elastic bodies by the BEM to solve the delamination problem. The BEM is used in the solution of the respective boundary value problems, for each subdomain separately, to compute the corresponding total potential energy. Sample problems are analysed by a collocation BEM code to illustrate the capabilities of the numerical procedure developed.