基于数字图像处理的含缺陷花岗岩破裂力学分析1）

在细观尺度上,采用数字图像处理技术研究花岗岩中由石英、长石和云母等材料的形状、大小及分布对花岗岩材料造成的非均匀性,结合RFPA-DIP 程序建立了能准确反映材料真实细观结构的含缺陷花岗岩数值模型,并进行了常规单轴压缩模拟试验,研究不同矿物颗粒结构与缺陷对其细观破裂力学行为的影响,再现了外载荷作用下不同数值模型的真实破裂过程与最终破坏模式. 试验结果表明:缺陷对试样强度的影响比改变矿物颗粒的形态构造对其强度的影响更加显著,缺陷的存在削弱了颗粒形态对花岗岩强度影响的能力;缺陷及矿物颗粒的形态构造对试样裂纹的萌生、扩展以及最终破坏模式有直接影响,缺陷与矿物颗粒的空间结构关系是导致岩石形成各种复杂破坏模式的主要因素. 起裂应力水平受试样内部细观介质构造和缺陷的影响,而缺陷的存在对起裂应力的影响更加显著.     

基于数字图像处理的含缺陷花岗岩破裂力学分析

在细观尺度上,采用数字图像处理技术研究花岗岩中由石英、长石和云母等材料的形状、大小及分布对花岗岩材料造成的非均匀性,结合RFPA-DIP程序建立了能准确反映材料真实细观结构的含缺陷花岗岩数值模型,并进行了常规单轴压缩模拟试验,研究不同矿物颗粒结构与缺陷对其细观破裂力学行为的影响,再现了外载荷作用下不同数值模型的真实破裂过程与最终破坏模式.试验结果表明:缺陷对试样强度的影响比改变矿物颗粒的形态构造对其强度的影响更加显著,缺陷的存在削弱了颗粒形态对花岗岩强度影响的能力;缺陷及矿物颗粒的形态构造对试样裂纹的萌生、扩展以及最终破坏模式有直接影响,缺陷与矿物颗粒的空间结构关系是导致岩石形成各种复杂破坏模式的主要因素.起裂应力水平受试样内部细观介质构造和缺陷的影响,而缺陷的存在对起裂应力的影响更加显著.     

脆性材料热-力耦合模型及热破裂数值分析方法

针对混凝土、岩石等脆性材料,利用热传导和热-力耦合的相关理论,并结合材料在细观尺度上的损伤演化规律,提出了一种考虑损伤的热-力耦合模型,并在原有材料破坏过程分析系统RFPA(Realistic Failure Process Analysis)模型的基础上建立了脆性材料热破裂过程分析的数值模拟方法.该方法考虑了脆性材料在细观层次上力学性质的非均匀性(包括强度、弹模、传导系数等),并通过统计分布函数建立了宏、细观力学性能之间的联系.对不同均匀程度材料的数值模拟结果表明:材料的非均匀性对热传导规律、热应力分布以及热破坏模式有较大的影响.材料热力学性质的非均匀性加剧了材料内部热应力分布的非均匀性,这是致使非均匀材料热破裂的一个重要因素.对稳态和瞬态热传导两种条件下的脆性介质破裂过程模拟分析表明,考虑瞬态热传导计算所得到的破裂区小于相同条件下稳态热传导所得到的结果,表明在热破裂过程分析中,应注重考虑瞬态热传导对破裂过程的影响.     

基于CT扫描的花岗岩三维数值试件重构模型及应用

本文以花岗岩试件为研究对象,借助于先进的CT技术获取试件内部结构切片图像,利用数字图像处理技术实现了基于CT图像的花岗岩试件结构的识别和表征,基于矢量化方法和岩石破裂过程分析系统RFPA3D建立了花岗岩三维数值试件,对花岗岩试件单轴压缩破裂过程进行了数值模拟。通过数值试验结果与物理实验结果对比发现,基于CT扫描的花岗岩数值试件的破裂模式与室内实验得到的破裂模式相似,为深入研究岩石、复合材料等力学特征提供了一种可行方法。     

准脆性材料断裂过程区中的圆饼微裂纹损伤计算

准脆性工程材料及结构在外力作用下，不仅引起内部缺陷变化和微裂纹的出现及发展，且使得其结构承载能力降低或性能劣化．在其材料失效过程中常存在裂缝与断裂损伤过程区．为研究材料细观缺陷或微裂纹与宏观破坏的规律，通过细观力学方法，对于代表性体积单元RVE中的圆饼型微裂纹的尺寸与密度变化，探讨其宏观断裂过程区力学参量与损伤之间的量化关系．借助宏观断裂过程区的黏聚裂纹模型，将损伤单元RVE嵌入到宏观裂缝端部的断裂过程区中，对其进行联接细观损伤到宏观破坏的力学多尺度研究．文中也通过实验数据，对其理论计算结果进行了算例的讨论与分析．     

基于一类非局部宏-微观损伤模型的混凝土典型试件力学行为模拟

混凝土是一类典型的准脆性材料, 其受力过程中的非线性分析与裂纹模拟依然是具有挑战性的问题. 经典的断裂力学与损伤力学分别从间断与连续的视角对裂纹拓扑进行了描述, 是早期人们研究固体破坏问题的有力工具. 21世纪以来, 相场理论和近场动力学在预测裂纹的萌生、扩展与非线性分析方面取得了重要的进展. 最近, 结合统一相场理论与近场动力学的基本思想, 发展了一类非局部宏-微观损伤模型. 该模型引入物质点偶的概念来刻画由于变形引起的微细观损伤, 对微细观损伤在作用域中进行加权平均得到定量描述物质不连续程度的拓扑损伤. 通过具有物理机制的能量退化函数, 将拓扑损伤嵌入到连续介质-损伤力学的框架中, 这使得该模型在进行非线性分析的同时可以自然地进行裂纹模拟, 而毋须预设初始裂纹与裂纹扩展路径. 本文考虑细观物理参数的空间变异性, 采用非局部宏-微观损伤模型进行混凝土试件受力全过程的精细化模拟. 通过一维建模标定模型细观参数, 并探讨了细观参数与混凝土材料细观物理-几何特性之间的内在关联, 在此基础上采用二维模型进行精细化分析. 进而, 考察了材料参数空间变异性对混凝土单轴受拉试件和带缺口三点弯曲试件力学行为的重要影响. 本文的研究工作为非局部宏-微观损伤模型细观参数的试验标定与复杂应力状态下混凝土等准脆性材料的非线性力学行为研究提供了有意义的参考.      

基于数字图像处理的岩石细观破裂力学分析

将数字图像处理技术引入到岩石破裂过程分析RFPA2D(Rock Failure Process Analysis)系统,建立了岩石细观结构破坏过程分析方法．首先提取岩石的细观结构图像,再转化成RFPA2D的前处理数据和数值分析网格,然后进行应力求解和破坏分析．以花岗岩细观结构为例,阐述了运用基于数字图像处理技术的RFPA2D方法进行岩石细观结构破坏分析的过程．结果表明,在岩石破裂过程数值模拟分析中引入数字图像处理技术是岩石细观结构破坏力学行为研究的一种方便而有效的方法．     

模拟岩石材料脆性破裂过程的三维离散元模型

发展一种能够模拟岩石材料脆性破裂过程的三维不规则、可变形块体离散元模型.一方面,在裂纹扩展过程中动态地将潜在破坏的连续块体沿潜在破坏方向细化为若干子块体,并在子块体之间的界面上设置连接型弹簧;另一方面,连接型弹簧在满足张拉-剪切复合破坏准则时发生脆性破裂,转变为接触型弹簧,实现材料由连续到非连续的破裂.借助动态松弛技术完成求解,通过计算实例验证该方法的适用性.     

基于微形态模型的颗粒材料中波的频散现象研究

基于颗粒材料冲击与波动响应特性的调控波传播行为的超材料设计受到广泛关注,设计这类材料需要对颗粒材料的波传播机制及调控机理有深入认识. 波在颗粒材料中传播的频散现象及频率带隙等行为与材料的非均匀性密切相关,通常讨论频散现象是基于弹性理论框架建立微结构连续体或高阶梯度连续体等广义连续体模型来进行. 本研究基于细观力学给出了一个颗粒材料的微形态连续体模型. 在该模型中,考虑了颗粒的平动和转动,且颗粒间的相对运动分解为两部分:即宏观平均运动和细观真实运动. 基于此分解,提出了一个完备的变形模式,得到了对应于不同应变及颗粒间运动的宏细观本构关系. 结合宏观变形能的细观变形能求和表达式,获得了基于细观量表示的宏观本构模量. 应用所建议模型考察了波在弹性颗粒介质的传播行为,给出了不同形式的波的频散曲线,结果显示此模型具有预测频率带隙的能力.      

混凝土三维细观模型的建模方法与力学特性分析

根据混凝土材料的细观组成和结构特点，基于三维Voronoi图形提出了一种简单高效的混凝土细观模型生成方法，利用塑性损伤模型对该细观模型进行了单、多轴应力状态下的准静态分析以及SHPB动态有限元分析。结果表明，数值模拟得到的应力应变曲线和破坏模式与实验结果基本吻合，本文中提出的混凝土三维细观模型可较好地模拟混凝土的静、动态力学特性，为进一步从细观力学角度研究混凝土损伤演化规律和破坏机理提供了模型基础。     

Fractal dimension as a characteristic of deformation stages of austenite stainless steel under tensile load

A technique for defining the fractal dimension of the deformed specimen is considered by using surface relief images obtained from a scanning electron microscope. By subjecting the austenitic stainless steel specimen to a step-wise increase in load, the fractal dimension is observed. Surface mesostructure could be characterized by discrete fractal dimension. The spectrum of the fractal data agrees with the self-affinity function calculated from the universal material constant. A correlation is established between the step-wise increase in the fractal dimension and the specific energies dissipated in the deformed specimen.     

On the use of simulated experiments in designing tests for material characterization from full-field measurements

The present paper deals with the use of simulated experiments to improve the design of an actual mechanical test. The analysis focused on the identification of the orthotropic properties of composites using the unnotched Iosipescu test and a full-field optical technique, the grid method. The experimental test was reproduced numerically by finite element analysis and the recording of deformed grey level images by a CCD camera was simulated trying to take into account the most significant parameters that can play a role during an actual test, e.g. the noise, the failure of the specimen, the size of the grid printed on the surface, etc. The grid method then was applied to the generated synthetic images in order to extract the displacement and strain fields and the Virtual Fields Method was finally used to identify the material properties and a cost function was devised to evaluate the error in the identification. The developed procedure was used to study different features of the test such as the aspect ratio and the fibre orientation of the specimen, the use of smoothing functions in the strain reconstruction from noisy data, the influence of missing data on the identification. Four different composite materials were considered and, for each of them, a set of optimized design variables was found by minimization of the cost function.     

数值岩石试样破裂过程多重分形特征

采用数值分析的方法和FLAC3D软件,建立服从应变软化关系的非均质岩石试样模型。引入多重分形理论,通过盒计数法计算了单轴加载过程中峰前某一阶段单元体积应变的多重分形谱f(α)。分析了f(α)-α曲线特征参数#f和#α随加载过程的阶段特征,不同均匀程度的岩石试样在临近峰值强度前#α和f(α)max的变化规律。研究结果表明,采用多重分形理论对单元体积应变的空间分布特征进行描述,可以在较大的尺度内满足标度不变性。通过不同的参量进行概率计算得出的f(α)略有不同,但动态变化规律相近,f(α)曲线呈左钩形状,随着载荷的增加#f变大,而#α变小。当不是所有的盒子内都存在可测度的参量时,f(α)max随载荷的增加而增长。对于均匀程度不同的试样,峰前f(α)max与#α随均匀性的增加而减小,但在均匀性较高以后,逼近于某一常数。     

Effective simulation of flexible lateral boundaries in two- and three-dimensional DEM simulations

Discrete element method （DEM） models to simulate laboratory element tests play an important role in advancing our understanding of the mechanics of granular material response, including bonded or cemented, particulate materials. Comparisons of the macro-scale response observed in a real physical test and a ＂virtual＂ DEM-simulated test can calibrate or validate DEM models. The detailed, particle scale information provided in the DEM simulation can then be used to develop our understanding of the material behaviour. It is important to accurately model the physical test boundary conditions in these DEM simulations. This paper specifically considers triaxial tests as these tests are commonly used in soil mechanics. In a triaxial test, the test specimen of granular material is enclosed within a flexible latex membrane that allows the material to deform freely during testing, while maintaining a specified stress condition. Triaxial tests can only be realistically simulated in 3D DEM codes, however analogue, 2D, biaxial DEM simulations are also often considered as it is easier to visualize particle interactions in two dimensions. This paper describes algorithms to simulate the lateral boundary conditions imposed by the latex membrane used in physical triaxial tests in both 2D and 3D DEM simulations. The importance of carefully considering the lateral boundary conditions in DEM simulations is illustrated by considering a 2D biaxial test on a specimen of frictional unbonded disks and a 3D triaxial test on a bonded （cemented） specimen of spheres. The comparisons indicate that the lateral boundary conditions have a more significant influence on the local, particle-scale response in comparison with the overall macro-scale observations.     

Monte Carlo simulation of complex cohesive fracture in random heterogeneous quasi-brittle materials: A 3D study

In a recent publication (Yang et al., 2009. Monte Carlo simulation of complex cohesive fracture in random heterogeneous quasi-brittle materials. Int. J. Solids Struct. 46 (17) 3222–3234), we developed a finite element method capable of modelling complex two-dimensional (2D) crack propagation in quasi-brittle materials considering random heterogeneous fracture properties. The present study extends the method to model three-dimensional (3D) problems. First, 3D cohesive elements are inserted into the initial mesh of solid elements to model potential crack surfaces by a specially designed, flexible and efficient algorithm and corresponding computer program. The softening constitutive laws of the cohesive elements are modelled by spatially-varying 3D Weibull random fields. Monte Carlo simulations are then carried out to obtain statistical information of structural load-carrying capacity. A concrete cube under uniaxial tension was analysed as an example. It was found that as the 2D heterogeneous model, the 3D model predicted realistic, complicated fracture processes and load-carrying capacity of little mesh-dependence. Increasing heterogeneity in terms of the variance in the tensile strength random fields resulted in lower mean and higher standard deviation of peak loads. Due to constraint effects and larger areas of unsmooth, non-planar fracture surfaces, 3D modelling resulted in higher mean and lower standard deviation of peak loads than 2D modelling.     

A 3/D finite element approach for metal matrix composites based on micromechanical models

Based on analytical considerations by Dvorak and Bahel-El-Din, a 3/D finite element material law has been developed for the elastic-plastic analysis of unidirectional fiber-reinforced metal matrix composites. The material law described in this paper has been implemented in the finite element code ABAQUS via the user subroutine UMAT. A constitutive law is described under the assumption that the fibers are linear-elastic and the matrix is of a von Mises-type with a Prager-Ziegler kinematic hardening rule. The uniaxial effective stress-strain relationship of the matrix in the plastic range is approximated by a Ramberg-Osgood law, a linear hardening rule or a nonhardening rule. Initial yield surface of the matrix material and for the fiber reinforced composite are compared to show the effect of reinforcement. Implementation of this material law in a finite element program is shown. Furthermore, the efficiency of substepping schemes and stress corrections for the numerical integration of the elastic-plastic stress-strain relations for anisotropic materials are investigated. The results of uniaxial monotonic tests of a boron/aluminum composite are compared to some finite element analyses based on micromechanical considerations. Furthermore a complete 3/D analysis of a tensile test specimen made of a silicon-carbide/aluminum MMC and the analysis of an MMC inlet inserted in a homogenous material are shown.     

Monte Carlo simulation of complex cohesive fracture in random heterogeneous quasi-brittle materials

A numerical method is developed to simulate complex two-dimensional crack propagation in quasi-brittle materials considering random heterogeneous fracture properties. Potential cracks are represented by pre-inserted cohesive elements with tension and shear softening constitutive laws modelled by spatially-varying Weibull random fields. Monte Carlo simulations of a concrete specimen under uni-axial tension were carried out with extensive investigation of the effects of important numerical algorithms and material properties on numerical efficiency and stability, crack propagation processes and load-carrying capacities. It was found that the homogeneous model led to incorrect crack patterns and load–displacement curves with strong mesh-dependence, whereas the heterogeneous model predicted realistic, complicated fracture processes and load-carrying capacity of little mesh-dependence. Increasing the variance of the tensile strength random fields with increased heterogeneity led to reduction in the mean peak load and increase in the standard deviation. The developed method provides a simple but effective tool for assessment of structural reliability and calculation of characteristic material strength for structural design.     

Effective simulation of flexible lateral boundaries in two-and three-dimensional DEM simulations

Discrete element method (DEM) models to simulate laboratory element tests play an important role in advancing our understanding of the mechanics of granular material response, including bonded or cemented, particulate materials.Comparisons of the macro-scale response observed in a real physical test and a "virtual" DEM-simulated test can calibrate or validate DEM models.The detailed, particle scale information provided in the DEM simulation can then be used to develop our understanding of the material behaviour.It is important to accurately model the physical test boundary conditions in these DEM simulations.This paper specifically considers triaxial tests as these tests are commonly used in soil mechanics.In a triaxial test,the test specimen of granular material is enclosed within a flexible latex membrane that allows the material to deform freely during testing, while maintaining a specified stress condition. Triaxial tests can only be realistically simulated in 3D DEM codes, however analogue,2D, biaxial DEM simulations are also often considered as it is easier to visualize particle interactions in two dimensions. This paper describes algorithms to simulate the lateral boundary conditions imposed by the latex membrane used in physical triaxial tests in both 2D and 3D DEM simulations.The importance of carefully considering the lateral boundary conditions in DEM simulations is illustrated by considering a 2D biaxial test on a specimen of frictional unbonded disks and a 3D triaxial test on a bonded (cemented) specimen of spheres. The comparisons indicate that the lateral boundary conditions have a more significant influence on the local,particle-scale response in comparison with the overall macro-scale observations.