Abstract
Modeling of the evolution of distributed damage such as microcracking, void formation, and softening frictional slip necessitates strain-softening constitutive models. The nonlocal continuum concept has emerged as an effective means for regularizing the boundary value problems with strain softening, capturing the size effects and avoiding spurious localization that gives rise to pathological mesh sensitivity in numerical computations. A great variety of nonlocal models have appeared during the last two decades. This paper reviews the progress in the nonlocal models of integral type, and discusses their physical justifications, advantages, and numerical applications.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Perspectives in Civil Engineering |
| Subtitle of host publication | Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the ASCE |
| Editors | J.S. Russell |
| Pages | 21-51 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| State | Published - 2003 |
Keywords
- Cracking
- Damage
- Localization
- Plasticity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Civil and Structural Engineering