“…Z. Zhu et al.,
2016; Zhao, Shao, & Zhu,
2018; Zhao, Lv, et al.,
2023), we assume that the sliding on mesocracks obeys the Coulomb‐type friction law:
where
is the Euclidean norm of the second‐order deviatoric local stress tensor
; meanwhile,
denotes the mean local stress; and μ * symbolizes the friction coefficient of mesocracks within the REV. It is noted that in the established works devoted to constitutive modeling, the friction coefficient μ * is conventionally considered constant for the sake of simplification (Molladavoodi,
2015; Qu et al.,
2021; Ren et al.,
2022; Zhao, Shao, & Zhu,
2018). Recently, however, a series of investigations have revealed that the friction coefficient is not a constant material parameter; rather, it is dependent on a number of factors, for example, ambient temperature, stress state, moisture, damage state, friction rate, and spatio‐temporal scale (Ben‐David & Fineberg,
2011; Putelat et al.,
2011; Scholz,
2019; Zhang & Ma,
2021; C. X. Zhao, Liu, et al.,
2023; Thom et al.,
2023).…”