Abstract
Continuum damage theories can be applied to simulate the failure behaviour of engineering constructions. In the constitutive equations of the material a damage parameter is incorporated. A damage criterion and a damage evolution law are postulated and quantified based on experimental data. The elaboration of the mathematical formulation is performed by common finite element techniques. Without special precautions the numerical results appear to be unacceptably dependent on the measure of the spatial discretization. It is shown that a simple but effective procedure leads to the conservation of objectivity.
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