Mecanismos de fratura em materiais multifásicos

Abstract

The understanding about the fractures processes in materials has a big importance for physics and civil construction industries. Through the fractures processes, we can better understand the materials’ elastics properties as its macroscopic Young module, rupture tension and rigidity module. We can define the fractures processes as those which divide a system into two or more parts, destroying the global connection of the elements that constitute it. In this context, in the first chapter, we can find a mathematical description of continuum mechanics equations. The second chapter discusses the model of Discrete Element(DEM), which is a numerical method capable of describing the mechanical behavior of granular materials. In the third chapter, we built the computational model for studying the mechanicals properties of three types of samples, crystalline, amorphous and multiphase. The computational model showed itself quite interesting and presented results which we can consider satisfactory.