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Damage plasticity model for concrete failure CDPM2

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concrete
concrete damage plasticity
Constitutive model

Those involved in the modelling of the failure of plain/reinforced concrete using damage and plasticity might be interested in our webpage

http://petergrassl.com/Research/DamagePlasticity/CDPMLSDYNA/index.html

which we have created to support our concrete damage plasticity model CDPM(2) in LS-DYNA. You can find there a number of example input files, reports and our implementation of the model in the form of a user subroutine.

 

PhD position at the University of Glasgow

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PhD Studentship
nuclear
transport

PhD position at the University of Glasgow on “Modelling of geo-engineered barriers for underground nuclear waste storage”



This project will take place at the School of Engineering of the
University of Glasgow in the UK and will be jointly supervised by Dr
Domenico Gallipoli and Dr Peter Grassl. The project will develop the
simulation tools for predicting the long-term behaviour of
geo-engineered barriers used in the geological (underground) storage of
nuclear waste. A typical geological storage scheme for nuclear waste

Two PhD studentships in computational fracture mechanics at the University of Glasgow

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fracture mechanics
concrete

There are two PhD studentships available at the University of Glasgow in the area of computational fracture mechanics of concrete.

The topics are multiscale modelling of corrosion induced cracking and meso-mechanically motivated nonlocal models for fracture. 

Please visit my webpage at http://www.civil.gla.ac.uk/~grassl for more information.

All the best,

Peter Grassl

Terminology for discrete approaches to modelling fracture

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It appears to me that there is more and more research done on discrete approaches to modelling fracture.

Especially for brittle or quasi-brittle materials these methods are undergoing a revival.

I am not sure why this is the case. I am also not in the position to judge if this revival is useful.

I just had recently a look at some of these models and I found these discrete models to be suitable

for description of fracture in heterogeneous materials, where cracks appear at many different positions.



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