Abstract
The conventional nonlocal model, often used as a localization limiter for continuum‐based constitutive laws with strain‐softening, has been based on an isotropic averaging function. It has recently been shown that this type of nonlocal averaging leads to a model that cannot satisfactorily reproduce experimental results for very different test geometries without modifying the value of the characteristic length depending on geometry. A micromechanically based enrichment of the nonlocal operator by a term taking into account the directional dependence of crack interactions can be expected to improve the performance of the nonlocal model. The aim of this paper is to examine this new model in the context of a simple localization problem reducible to a one‐dimensional description. Strain localization in an infinite layer under plane stress is studied using both the old and the new nonlocal formulations. The importance of a renormalization of the averaging function in the proximity of a boundary is demonstrated ...
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