...@tudelft.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Damage mechanics Cracking Sequentially linear analysis Mechanics Reinforced concrete Modelling the fracture of brittle materials is an essential requirement for assessing safety of concrete structures through the prediction of failure...

...Shigeru Tada Purpose It has been well known that the quantum zero‐point energy (ZPE) cannot be conserved in simulations of atoms and molecules dynamics based on classical mechanics. The purpose of this paper is to examine fundamental issues related to the treatment of quantum ZPE constraint...

... the same condition with the second subsystem. We choose here to enforce the coupling condition with the first subsystem to be solved, concerning the computation of the mechanical residual or enforcement of the equilibrium equations. Considering the iteration step (k), the latter implies...

... finite elements (T‐elements) was applied as an efficient tool to deal with various problems of fracture mechanics. Findings Numerical examples compare the results of the T‐element procedures with the commercial systems ALGOR^® and ANSYS^®, showing the advantages of using...

... Mechanics Dynamics Finite element analysis Equilibrium methods The Morse potential describes the pair potential energy Φ(r_{ij) of two atoms i and j with a distance rij as Equation 1 where D and α are constants}...

... particle aspect ratio were formed with a preferred bedding plane, isotropically compressed with varying isotropic confining stresses and then sheared with biaxial compression. The results indicate that Discrete Element analysis using two dimensional ellipse‐shaped particles produces mechanical behaviour...