Simulation de fissures courbes en trois dimensions avec extraction directe des facteurs d'intensité des contraintes : En vue de l'identification de lois de propagation de fatigue

摘要

It is necessary to understand the behavior of structures up to their failure to enhance their design. The mechanisms and phenomena undergoing failure vary according to the considered material and boundary conditions. We consider homogeneous materials for which cracks propagate in a context where behavior nonlinearities are not dominants. These conditions are matched for brittle and quasi-brittle materials and for some fatigue cracks. For the former, the main source of dissipation is the crack propagation which can be seen as the generation of a new free-surface. For the later, there is many applications where, in one loading cycle, the nonlinearities remains confined around the crack tip. The linear elastic fracture mechanics theory is then a pertinent model to approximate the structure behavior. Under such hypotheses, a singularity appears in the crack tip vicinity. The Williams' series expansion is computed from the asymptotic study of plane and anti-plane states. The stress is singular at the crack tip and the order of this singularity is one out of two. The singularity amplitude is quantified by the stress intensity factors (SIF), one for each of the three loading modes. In 3D, the crack shape is potentially complex (front curvature and non-planar crack), and no general asymptotic series expansion exists. In this PhD thesis, the 2D Williams' series in displacements are used and regularized with a finite element evolution along the front. From this 3D definition of the asymptotic fields in the crack tip vicinity, a numerical method for direct estimation of the SIF (DEK-FEM) is extended to 3D. This method is based on domain decomposition, the two domains are bounded in a weak sense on their interface. In the crack tip vicinity, the mechanical fields are approximated by a truncation of the asymptotic series expansion. Therefore, appropriate fields are used to deal with the singularity, and the associated degrees of freedom are directly the asymptotic coefficients. Among these coefficients are the SIF and the T-stresses. To bridge the scales between the structure and the crack front singularity and to increase the numerical efficiency, this method is embedded in a localized X-FEM multigrids approach. The proposed method is shown to provide an accurate evaluation of the SIF and T-stresses evolution. This approach has been developed in combination of an experimental post-processing method (full field displacement measurement through image correlation) based on the same asymptotic series expansion. The 3D images can be obtained for in situ fatigue experiments by X-ray microtomography and reconstruction. The crack geometry and the SIF are then provided by image correlation and regularization based on Williams series expansion. These data can be used for identifying a 3D fatigue crack growth law. The efficiency of the method is illustrated in 2D.