The proposed contact model offers a reliable technique for realizing continual crack growth in discrete samples. Such contact model could combine with Paris’ law, thus further enhancing its capacity of simulating fatigue crack growth. Based on the proposed contact model, calculation of stress intensity factor (SIF) only requires contact force and relative displacement of consisting particles, and its convenience indicates a promising generalizability in fatigue crack growth analysis for geomaterials.
Published on 15/02/22
Accepted on 15/02/22
Submitted on 15/02/22
Volume IS07 - Fracture and Fragmentation With DEM, 2022
DOI: 10.23967/particles.2021.034
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license
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