Adaptive and Pressure-Robust Discretization of Incompressible Pressure-Driven Phase-Field Fracture

06/30/2020

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by   Seshadri Basava, et al.

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In this work, we consider pressurized phase-field fracture problems in nearly and fully incompressible materials. To this end, a mixed form for the solid equations is proposed. To enhance the accuracy of the spatial discretization, a residual-type error estimator is developed. Our algorithmic advancements are substantiated with several numerical tests that are inspired from benchmark configurations. Therein, a primal-based formulation is compared to our newly developed mixed phase-field fracture method for Poisson ratios approaching ν→ 0.5. Finally, for ν = 0.5, we compare the numerical results of the mixed formulation with a pressure robust modification.