A micro-macro confined compressive fatigue creep failure model in brittle solids

Fatigue properties under cyclic static compressive loading and unloading (i.e., compressive fatigue/cyclic creep properties) have an important meaning for evaluation of lifetime in brittle solids containing numerous microcracks. The total deformation during cyclic static compression consists of time-independent elastic, time-dependent viscoelastic, time-dependent viscoplastic and time-independent plastic deformations. In this study, the...