Abstract

The new nonlocal fracture criteria are proposed, which are the extension of the average stress criterion and the point stress criterion, and which contain a complex parameter that characterizes the size of the fracture process zone and accounts not only for the material microstructure, but also ductile properties of the material, geometry of the specimen, and its loading conditions. The formulas are obtained for the critical pressure in the problem of tensile fracture initiation in the specimens of geomaterials containing a circular hole and subjected to uniformly or nonuniformly distributed compression. The results of the calculations are in good agreement with the experimental data on failure of gypsum plates with a hole.

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