Nonlocal damage modelling in clay/epoxy nanocomposites using a multiscale approach
We proposed a method to model dynamic fracture in clay/epoxy nanocomposites. We used XFEM for modelling initial cracks and a damage model for crack propagation. The proposed method uses a nonlocal damage formulation to regularize the damage. The method was verified by a comparison between multiscale and full fine scale model.
nonlocal damage nanocomposites multiscale arlequin method dynamic loading