PROPERTIES OF THE STATISTICAL DAMAGE EVOLUTION EQUATION AND ITS NUMERICAL SIMULATION

Damage mechanics has become a very helpful tool for engineers to deal with failure problems. Actually the physical essence of damage is the population of distributed microdamage in a continuum element. When one intends to correlate the damage evolution to the mesoscopic dynamics of microstructure of a particular material, it becomes necessary to investigate the statistical evolution of distributed microdamage. Based on the analysis and numerical simulation of one kind of statistical damage evolution equati...