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May 6, 2011, 07:24 crack growth modelling implementing Cohesive Zone Model (CZM) #1

_Denis_ Hello, everyone!

New Member Could you, please, help me with the following issue?
I’m trying to simulate a crack growth using cohesive zone model
Denis (CZM), andthe results I get do not agree with my expectations,
Join Date: May 2011 based on a common senseand simple estimations.
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In short, the problem is: the cracking starts only after reaching the
normal stress that is million times greater than the maximum
normal contact stress parameter.

As I don’t yet feel myself on a safe ground with APDL, I make use of
AnsysMechanical, implementing command objects where needed.
At the moment the model is looking like a two beams (meshed with
20-nodebricks) bonded together with a surface-to-surface contact,
beingseparated from each other.
In the Contacts branch I create a bonded Solid to Solid contact, and
attacha command object to it. Here is the text from the command
object:
ESEL,S,REAL,,4
EDELE,all

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ESEL,ALL
tb,czm,3,,,cbde
tbdata,1,1e4,5e-8,,,1e-8

About the first 3 lines: if I get it right, because of the symmetry of

mymodel Mechanical automatically creates two contact sets, with
real constant ID3 and 4, respectively. Thus, I believe, it makes
sense to delete one of thesesets.
The elastic properties of the material in use are: linear
anisotropicelasticity with 11, 22, 33 components of the elasticity
matrix around 1e11 Pa.All faces of the beams are perpendicular to
the relevant coordinate axis, theseparation traction is applied along
one of coordinate axis, normal to thecontact plane (to be precise, I
impose on two faces of the different beams notthe force, but
ramped displacement).
You can see that the maximum normal contact stress is set to be
1e4 Pa,which is not much, considering the elastic properties of the
material. Iestimate that if I set this value to 1e10 Pa, the model
should crack afterdeformation of less than 15 %. On the practice, if
this value is greater than1e4, the body deforms until the
deformation causes instabilities withoutcracking, while the normal
stress result branch clearly shows that the actualstress at the
interface is much greater than the current normal contact
stressparameter value. How could these be? Where is my mistake?
Some additional information about my model:
The pinball radius is set to be program controlled, large deflection =
0n,Augmented Lagrangian method , Physics type: structural,
Analysis type:transient.
Thank you very much for your attention!

April 20, 2012, 15:51 #2

imnull Max_Stress=50 !MPa

Member Max_Udl=0.05 !/100%
t=0.1 !mm
Dmitry
Join Date: Nov 2011 Gap=Max_Udl*t
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tb,czm,cid,,,cbdd
tbdata,1,Max_Stress,Gap,Max_Stress,Gap,0.001,1

Stiffness=-Max_Stress/(0.10*Gap)

rmodif,cid,3,Stiffness
rmodif,cid,12,Stiffness

PLUS

The pinball radius should be set less than your mesh size!!
and dot forget PURE PENALTY formulation in Contact Region

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April 20, 2012, 16:04 #3

_Denis_ Thank you very much for answering.

New Member The only problem is that my post is 1 year old, and I've alread got
over that problem.
Denis
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April 20, 2012, 18:25 #4

imnull Quote:
Member
Originally Posted by _Denis_
Dmitry Thank you very much for answering.
Join Date: Nov 2011 The only problem is that my post is 1 year old, and I've
Posts: 45 alread got over that problem.
Rep Power: 9

have u done a model validation with real experiment?

April 22, 2012, 03:24 #5

_Denis_ I haven't conducted any experiments myself, but I've compared the
New Member speed of crack propagation resulting from my simulation with known
experimental results.
Denis
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July 23, 2013, 10:41 cohesive mateial #6

alizadeh hi dear Denis

New Member i m trying to model delamination via contact element and cohesive
material which involve defining cohesive material between two
ali planes meshed by shell99
Join Date: Jul 2013 would you let me know how can i define cohesive material between
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two planes

all the best

alizadeh

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NithyaRamesh Hi
New Member i have also one doubt regarding cohesive zone modeling. That, is it
possible to give 1000mm shear separation for 100mm Double
NithyaRamesh cantilever beam?
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