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A new micromechanical modelling approach for brittle damage in initially orthotropic materials is presented. The proposed strain-based energy formulation allows to derive a fully anisotropic multilinear model for microcracked materials with arbitrary oriented defects. The thermodynamics framework provides a standard procedure for the damage evolution law. The new model explicitly accounts for the interaction between primary and induced anisotropies. Moreover, the very challenging issue of opening-closure effects (unilateral behavior) is addressed in this framework.
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Damage Mechanics: Theory, Computation and Practice
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This page is a summary of: Brittle Damage in Initially Anisotropic Materials: A Model Accounting for the Induced Anisotropy and Unilateral Effects, Applied Mechanics and Materials, August 2015, Trans Tech Publications,
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.784.173.
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