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8.2. Basic assumptions of the microplane-based material model8.2 Basic assumptions of the microplane-based material modelAn elasto-plastic fracture energy-based microplane model is developed for simulatingthe FRCC macroscopic failure behavior in a smeared crack mode as shown in Figure8.1. The following formulation is based on the approach proposed by Carol et al. [2001]and Kuhl et al. [2001].22113 43 4(b)(c)n(a)(d)Figure 8.1: (a) Concrete specimen, (b) continuum <strong>di</strong>scretization scale, (c) 4-node continuumFE and (d) spherical microplane region at gauss-point with a generalized normal <strong>di</strong>rection.8.2.1 Kinematic assumptionsThe kinematic constraint assumes that the microplane normal and shear strains (ε Nand ε T , respectively) are calculated by means of the following relationsε N = n · ε · nε T = ε · n − ε N n(8.1)or in index notationε N = ε i j n i n jε T,k = ε k j n j − ε N n k(8.2)being ε the macroscopic strain tensor (ε i j in index notation) projected on the microplane<strong>di</strong>rection n (with n i in index notation).155

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