Accounting for frictional contact in an anisotropic damage model based on compliance tensorial variables, illustration on ceramic matrix composites

Abstract

Ceramic matrix composites have good thermomechanical properties at high or very high temperatures. The modeling of the crack networks associated to the degradation of such composites using damage mechanics is not straightforward. The main reason is the presence of a crack network mainly oriented by the loading direction, which is a priori unknown. To model this, compliance tensorial damage variables are used in a thermodynamic potential able to account for crack closure effects (unilateral contact). The damage kinematic is initially completely free and imposed by the evolution laws. The key point of the present paper is to account for friction in such cracks that can result in an apparent activation/deactivation of the shear damage. The initial model is enriched with an inelastic strain and a friction law. The plasticity criterion is expressed only using tensorial variables. The model is identified and illustrated on multiaxial data obtained at ONERA on tubes loaded in tension and torsion.

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“…The mechanical properties reflect the damage resistance of composites under different loading conditions, which is an important index for the safety design of components (Baranger, 2013; Chen et al., 2007; Christopher and Choudhary, 2019; Marcin et al., 2011). It is directly related to the safety and reliability of components in service and the predictability of damage (Bache et al., 2019; Baranger, 2019; Mareau and Morel, 2019; Matta et al., 2019; Yu et al., 2019). The tensile stress–strain behavior reflects the strength of the composite material to resist the damage of external tensile loading.…”