Guest lecture: Computational Failure Analysis: From Continuous to Localized Damage

Two families of models are commonly used to study the rupture of materials:

- a first family of models describes the collapsing area of a material in a continuous way (e.g. damage models)
- another family of models introduces a discontinuity in the structure when a crack initiates (e.g. cohesive zone models)


Numerische_Struckturanalyse_Caces.pdf