A physical minimum dissipative energy-based damage model for crack growth simulation of geoengineering structures

A damage model and simulation method are developed to simulate fracture process of geoengineering structures by using the continuum damage mechanics. The main contribution of this study is that the principle of minimum dissipative energy is used to develop the damage model, in which each parameter has an explicit physics meaning. Thus the competitive crack growth process of geoengineering structures can be simulated by using the developed...