Abstract:
:This study uses a recently developed phase-field approach to model fracture of arterial walls with an emphasis on aortic tissues. We start by deriving the regularized crack surface to overcome complexities inherent in sharp crack discontinuities, thereby relaxing the acute crack surface topology into a diffusive one. In fact, the regularized crack surface possesses the property of Gamma-Convergence, i.e. the sharp crack topology is restored with a vanishing length-scale parameter. Next, we deal with the continuous formulation of the variational principle for the multi-field problem manifested through the deformation map and the crack phase-field at finite strains which leads to the Euler-Lagrange equations of the coupled problem. In particular, the coupled balance equations derived render the evolution of the crack phase-field and the balance of linear momentum. As an important aspect of the continuum formulation we consider an invariant-based anisotropic constitutive model which is additively decomposed into an isotropic part for the ground matrix and an exponential anisotropic part for the two families of collagen fibers embedded in the ground matrix. In addition we propose a novel energy-based anisotropic failure criterion which regulates the evolution of the crack phase-field. The coupled problem is solved using a one-pass operator-splitting algorithm composed of a mechanical predictor step (solved for the frozen crack phase-field parameter) and a crack evolution step (solved for the frozen deformation map); a history field governed by the failure criterion is successively updated. Subsequently, a conventional Galerkin procedure leads to the weak forms of the governing differential equations for the physical problem. Accordingly, we provide the discrete residual vectors and a corresponding linearization yields the element matrices for the two sub-problems. Finally, we demonstrate the numerical performance of the crack phase-field model by simulating uniaxial extension and simple shear fracture tests performed on specimens obtained from a human aneurysmatic thoracic aorta. Model parameters are obtained by fitting the set of novel experimental data to the predicted model response; the finite element results agree favorably with the experimental findings.
journal_name
Comput Methods Appl Mech Engjournal_title
Computer methods in applied mechanics and engineeringauthors
Gültekin O,Dal H,Holzapfel GAdoi
10.1016/j.cma.2016.04.007keywords:
["Anisotropic failure criterion","Arterial wall","Biomechanics","Crack phase-field","Fracture","Multi-field modeling"]subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-12-01 00:00:00pages
542-566eissn
0045-7825issn
1879-2138journal_volume
312pub_type
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