Institute for Structural Mechanics
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Two families of models are commonly used to study the rupture of materials:
- a first family of models describes the collapsing area of a material in a continuous way (e.g. damage models)
- another family of models introduces a discontinuity in the structure when a crack initiates (e.g. cohesive zone models)
Numerische_Struckturanalyse_Caces.pdf
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