Dynamic analysis of 2-D and 3-D quasi-brittle solids and structures by DBEM.docVIP

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS vol. 27, pp. 39-48, 2002 Dynamic analysis of 2-D and 3-D quasi-brittle solids and structures by D/BEM George D.Hatzigeorgiou and Dimitri E.Beskos Submitted 12 February, 2002 Abstract 1 Introduction Quasi-brittle materials, such as concrete, rocks, soils, ceramics and ma- sonry, exhibit a behavior under dynamic loading characterized by dif- ferent strengths in tension and compression, a stress-strain curve with an almost linear ascending branch and a highly nonlinear descending 39  40 G.D.Hatzigeorgiou,D.E.Beskos branch (softening), increasing strength in the compression-compression region, localization of deformation and creation of shear bands, increase of strengths under dynamic load (strain-rate e?ect) and cyclic material behavior under cyclic loading. All these material characteristics can be successfully simulated by elastic damage theories. In this work, an elastic damage model called FOM is employed. This model consists of the elastic damage part of the plasticity-damage model of Faria and Oliver [1] expressed in terms of the tension and compression damage indices, which are combined to produce a single damage index on the basis of Mazars [2] theory of damage. Strain rate and cyclic e?ects are embedded in this model with the aid of experimentally derived empirical relations. A boundary element method (BEM) employing the elastostatic fun- damental solution is developed for the dynamic analysis of 2-D and 3-D solids and structures exhibiting a quasi-static material behavior sim- ulated by the FOM model. Thus both surface and volume integrals are created, the latter due to inertia and inelasticity. This requires both a surface and an interior (domain) discretization of the body. For this reason the method is called Domain/Boundary Element method or D/BEM. The space-discretized equations of motion are ?nally solved numerically by Houbolt’s step-by-step time integration sc