Abstract: In structures containing brittle materials, residual and/or heterogenous stresses may prevent cracks to propagate up to failure. Consequently, for such structures, crack arrest has to be accounted ...

Abstract: This paper considers a model of crack propagation taking place at the interface between a rigid support and an elastic plate. The interface is modeled using a fiber bundle model (i.e., describing a damage behavior using a ...

Abstract: Crimped mineral wools are characterized by a strongly anisotropic microstructure, whose local preferential orientation is highly heterogeneous. It is proposed to identify the local anisotropic ...