Interaction-based non-local damage model for failure in quasi-brittle materials
Résumé
The purpose of this paper is to present a new macroscopic approach to describe the evolving non-local interactions which are produced at the mesoscale dur- ing damage and failure in quasi-brittle materials. A new-integral type non-local model is provided where the weight function is directly built from these interac- tions, and therefore takes into account their evolution during the material failure intrinsically.