CDP

Concrete Damage Plasticity Model

References

1. 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9399(1998)124:8(892)

2. 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9845(199809)27:9<937::AID-EQE764>3.0.CO;2-5

3. 10.1002/1097-0207(20010120)50:2<487::AID-NME44>3.0.CO;2-N

4. 10.1016/0020-7683(89)90050-4

Outline

The CDP model supports stiffness degradation. The backbone envelops are defined as exponential functions in terms of plastic strain [4]. Apart from the listed references, readers can also refer to the corresponding section in Constitutive Modelling Cookbook.

Syntax

material CDP (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) [15]
# (1) int, unique tag
# (2) double, elastic modulus
# (3) double, poissons ratio
# (4) double, crack stress f_t
# (5) double, crush stress f_c
# (6) double, normalized crack energy g_t
# (7) double, normalized crush energy g_c
# (8) double, initial tension hardening a_t<1
# (9) double, initial compression hardening a_c>1
# (10) double, damage factor at half crack stress d_t
# (11) double, damage factor at peak crush stress d_c
# (12) double, dilatancy parameter
# (13) double, biaxial compression ratio
# (14) double, initial stiffness recovery factor
# [15] double, density, default: 2400E-12

Remarks

1. Poisson's ratio shall be smaller than $0.5$, a typical value for concrete is around $0.2$.

2. Crack stress shall be greater than zero while crush stress shall be smaller than zero. But the program automatically set the signs for both stresses.

3. Normalized crack energy $g_t=G_F/l_c$ equals the first mode crack energy $G_F$ over the characteristic length $l_c$. For SI (millimeter) unit system, typical values are of order $10^{-3}$. The compression conjugate $g_c$ is typically greater than $g_t$ by the order of $10^2$.

4. Hardening parameters controls tension degradation slope and compression hardening shape. Values $a_t\approx0.5$ and $a_c\approx2$ to $a_c\approx5$ give good results.

5. Dilatancy parameter can be set to $0.2$. Comparisons can be seen in Lee's doctoral dissertation.

6. Biaxial compression ratio is defined as the ratio between biaxial and uniaxial compression strengths. According to Kupfer et al. (1969), a value of $1.16$ is recommended.

7. Initial stiffness recovery factor controls the amount of stiffness recovery when loading direction changes.

8. Theoretically, $g_t$ and $g_c$ shall be scaled according to the size of mesh grid. Practically, they cannot be arbitrarily small due to numerical stability issues, meaning that the mesh grid cannot be arbitrarily large.

History Layout

location	parameter
initial_history(0)	$d_t$
initial_history(1)	$d_c$
initial_history(2)	$\kappa_t$
initial_history(3)	$\kappa_c$
initial_history(4-9)	plastic strain

Recording

This model supports the following additional history variables to be recorded.

variable label	physical meaning
DT	tensile damage
DC	compressive damage