Effective Elastic Moduli in Solids with High Crack Density
Materials Science
2015-05-13 v1
Abstract
We investigate the weakening of elastic materials through randomly distributed circles and cracks numerically and compare the results to predictions from homogenization theories. We find a good agreement for the case of randomly oriented cracks of equal length in an isotropic plane-strain medium for lower crack densities; for higher densities the material is weaker than predicted due to precursors of percolation. For a parallel alignment of cracks, where percolation does not occur, we analytically predict a power law decay of the effective elastic constants for high crack densities, and confirm this result numerically.
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@article{arxiv.0907.4162,
title = {Effective Elastic Moduli in Solids with High Crack Density},
author = {Robert Spatschek and Clemens Gugenberger and Efim Brener},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4162},
year = {2015}
}
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