Crack Propagation in Brittle Materials

2024

Irrevolutions is a computational stability analysis toolkit designed to solve nonlinear and nonconvex evolutionary problems using advanced numerical methods. It provides efficient algorithms for computing solutions for constrained minimum problems with application to irreversible evolutions (hence its name). In particular, this framework is relevant in the context of fracture and damage mechanics.

Irreversible Evolution of Damage

Let $y=(\alpha, u)$ be an admissible state of a brittle system where $\alpha: \Omega \mapsto [0, 1]$ is a smooth damage field which identifies cracks (where $\alpha =1$) and $u$ is a displacement field. Provided a material model (an energy functional) $E_\ell$, given a time horizon $T$, let's find a map $t \in [0, T]\mapsto y_t$ such that: damage is non-decreasing and the observed state $y_t$ is energy-minimal, among admissible variations.

How to contribute

Reporting bugs

If you find a bug in irrevolutions, please report it on the GitHub issue tracker.

Suggesting enhancements

If you wish to suggest a new feature or an improvement of a current feature, you can submit this on the issue tracker.

Contributing code (submitting a pull request)

To contribute code irrevolutions, create a pull request. If you want to contribute, but are unsure where to start, get in touch with the authors.

On opening a pull request, unit tests will run on GitHub Continuous Integration. You can click on these in the pull request to see where (if anywhere) the tests are failing.

For more details on the pull request workflow, check https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/community/contributing/pr_workflow.html

Installation

Before installing irrevolutions, ensure you have dolfinx and other dependencies installed.

DOLFINx (and some other libraries like MPI and PyVista) have complex dependencies, it may be best to install them using conda from the conda-forge channel. Conda handles the environment setup and dependency conflicts well for these low-level libraries. Otherwise, you install from source using Spack or us a pre-built docker image.

Then, install your Python package dependencies with Poetry. After installing system-level dependencies with Conda (or another method), you can use Poetry to manage the Python-specific packages and virtual environment for your project. Poetry will not attempt to reinstall DOLFINx or other system-level packages.

More specifically, you can install dolfinx using one of the following methods:

• Using conda

conda create -n fenicsx-env -c conda-forge fenics-dolfinx=0.7.2 mpich pyvista sympy pandas pyyaml
conda activate fenicsx-env

• Using Spack see https://github.com/FEniCS/dolfinx/blob/main/README.md#spack

• Using Apt (ubuntu 23.04 build)

apt-get install -y  software-properties-common python3-pip git libgl1-mesa-glx xvfb libglu1 libxcursor1 libxinerama1

add-apt-repository ppa:fenics-packages/fenics
apt update
apt-install fenicsx

For detailed instructions, see https://github.com/FEniCS/dolfinx/blob/main/README.md#installation

• Using a Docker container

For an ARM-based machine:

docker run --rm -ti -v "$(pwd)":/home/numerix -w /home/numerix kumiori3/numerix:stable

For an AMD64 machine:

docker run --rm -ti -v "$(pwd)":/home/numerix -w /home/numerix kumiori3/numerix:stable-amd64

For a windows box:

docker run --rm -ti -v "C:/...":/home/numerix" -w /home/numerix kumiori3\numerix:stable-amd64

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/kumiori/irrevolutions.gt
cd irrevolutions

Finally, irrevolutions can be installed using setuptools from the root directory

python3 -m pip install .

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This code was initially conceived as a support for the teaching course MEC647, (Complex) Crack Propagation in Brittle Materials, delivered to the students of the international master programme, joint between École Polytechnique and ENSTA-Paristech throughout 2020-2022.

Acknowledgements

To all the students for their effort, participation, and motivation.

This project contains code from the DOLFINy project (https://github.com/fenics-dolfiny/dolfiny), which is licensed under the LGPLv3 license. We acknowledge and thank the DOLFINy contributors for their work.

See paper.md

License

See LICENSE file.

Each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.

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