Coupling between creep and cracking in tension
Abstract
An isotropic elastic damage model is extended to taken into account creep failure. It combines a creep model by means of several Kelvin-Voigt chains in serial and the Mazars model, where the equivalent strain threshold includes a part of creep strain. The model has been implemented in an available finite element code. The implementation is straightforward since all the involved equations are defined explicitly. The proposed model is able to reproduce linear visco-elastic strain for low stress levels and also failure caused by tertiary creep.
Fields of Study & Subjects
High Temperature Alloys and Creep
Concrete Properties and Behavior
Fatigue and fracture mechanics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- New Trends in Fracture Mechanics of Concrete
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Pages
- 495–502
- Publication date
- 4 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter