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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
3-2009
Abstract
A two-scale model for predicting the multiple crack growth in viscoelastic solids due to an impact is presented. The cracks are considered only at the local scale through the use of a micromechanical viscoelastic cohesive zone model. The multiscale model has been implemented in a finite-element code. In order to minimize the computation time, the local finite-element meshes are solved in parallel by multiple processors. An example problem is given in order to demonstrate the capabilities of the model.
Comments
Published in Mechanics of Composite Materials 45:2 (2009), pp. 145–152. Copyright © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. Used by permission. Russian translation published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov 45:2 (March-April 2009), pp. 211-222.