Large-scale simulations of quasi-brittle microcracking in realistic highly heterogeneous microstructures obtained from micro CT imaging

Thanh Tung Nguyen; Julien Yvonnet; Michel Bornert; Camille Chateau; François Bilteryst; Eric Steib

Large-scale simulations of quasi-brittle microcracking in realistic highly heterogeneous microstructures obtained from micro CT imaging

Thanh Tung Nguyen ^{1, 2} Julien Yvonnet ¹ Michel Bornert ² Camille Chateau ² François Bilteryst ³ Eric Steib ³

1 MSME - Laboratoire de Modélisation et Simulation Multi Echelle

3 LEMTA - Laboratoire d'Energétique et de Mécanique Théorique Appliquée

Abstract : We present large-scale simulations of microcracking initiation and propagation using a continuum mechanics description in realistic, voxel-based microstructures of heterogeneous quasi-brittle materials obtained from CT imaging techniques. The phase field method is used to describe the evolution of the complex microcracks networks in both uniaxial tension and compression of a sub-volume of a lightweight concrete, where all pores and sand grains are explicitly described. A description of the meshing techniques for such complex voxel-based models is provided, and a convergence study of the tensile failure strength with respect to the sample size is carried out. Such large-scale simulations have high potential to be used either within recent concurrent multiscale methods or in approaches combining in-situ experiments with 3D imaging techniques and simulations for inverse identification of microstructural damage models.

Keywords : quasi-brittle materials Cracks phase field microstructures image-based models of microstructures * Correspondance to J Yvonnet

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