An orthotropic multi-surface damage-plasticity FE-formulation for wood: Part I – Constitutive model

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Restoration of ancient wooden beams and design of smart wood-based structures are gaining an increasing interest in building industry. In this context, the computational challenge is to develop numerical constitutive models that account for the complex and strongly non-linear behaviour of wood. Wood is a natural composite exhibiting pronounced orthotropic behaviour, and markedly different properties along the parallel and transverse-to-the-fiber directions. It displays a strongly non-linear mechanical behavior, almost elasto-plastic at compressive loadings and elasto-damaging when subjected to tensile and shearing stresses. We devise here a novel constitutive model for wood with a multi-surface failure domain resulting from a set of plastic laws for compressive failure modes and orthotropic damage laws for tensile/shear failure modes. The advantage over existing formulations is that the coexistence of anisotropic damage and plasticity constitutive laws allows to correctly capture brittle failure induced by strain localization as well as the possible occurrence of ductile plastic behavior. Furthermore, the present contribution shows how to numerically treat the simultaneous presence of anisotropic damage and plasticity in a general algorithmic multi-surface framework. It is shown that the obtained numerical results satisfactorily fit to experimental data.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number106350
JournalComputers & structures
Volume240
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

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Scopus 85089416255

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